Ashdown, AR
Ashdown, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ashdown at the 62nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,534 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ashdown at the 64th percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Where Ashdown's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 55.9% of Ashdown's 2,534 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 44.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Ashdown against the rest of the country
Inside Arkansas, Ashdown sits at just the 45th percentile even though it scores 62nd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ashdown ranks 11,937 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,235 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 335 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
Ashdown's 62nd-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 55.9% of Ashdown's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Ashdown's 62nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ashdown, see the exposure-zones guide.