Altheimer, AR
Altheimer, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Altheimer at the 15th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 538 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Altheimer at the 14th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Altheimer's building exposure, zone by zone
Altheimer rates 74.9% Minimal exposure against just 25.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 538 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Altheimer ranks
There's little gap between Altheimer's 15th national percentile and its 7th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Altheimer ranks 26,873 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,743 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 571 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Altheimer's low wildfire rating (15th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Altheimer
Even with 74.9% of Altheimer outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Altheimer's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Altheimer, see the exposure-zones guide.