Whale Pass, AK
Whale Pass, AK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Whale Pass's 111 buildings earn a 8th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Whale Pass's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
111 buildings are counted in Whale Pass, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Whale Pass ranks
Whale Pass scores 8th nationally and 10th within Alaska — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Whale Pass ranks 29,047 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,569 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alaska alone, it ranks 291 of 322 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alaska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Whale Pass
At the 8th national percentile, Whale Pass rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Whale Pass's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Whale Pass's 8th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Whale Pass, see the exposure-zones guide.