https://www.muni.org/Departments/Fire/Wildfire/Documents/ANCHORAGE_WILDFIRE_May_2004_Program_Report.pdf. 

Here is a long winded study the city published. If you read this closely, you will see many notations in regards to the "Fuel" problem on the HillSide. It will also show how we are not truly prepared to address the situation.  Yes, there has been some correction, but nothing compared to what needs to be done. It's not, if it happens, it's when will it happen? Until we take major steps to reduce the fuel up there, it's a future killing field. I no longer have the numbers at my finger tips, but there was another study which identified just how much total fuel was up there. It compared it to "Powder Kegs".