Bald Knob, AR
Bald Knob wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bald Knob at the 75th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,644 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bald Knob at the 77th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Bald Knob's buildings actually sit
57.4% of Bald Knob's 1,644 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 41.9% Direct and 0.7% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Bald Knob compares
There's little gap between Bald Knob's 75th national percentile and its 64th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bald Knob ranks 7,931 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,606 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 221 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bald Knob
At the 75th percentile nationally, Bald Knob carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 57.4% of Bald Knob'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
Bald Knob's 75th-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 Bald Knob, see the exposure-zones guide.