Beaver, AR
How exposed is Beaver to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Beaver at the 68th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 58 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 Beaver at the 69th percentile, close to its 68th-percentile risk score.
Beaver's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Beaver's 58 counted buildings, 89.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Beaver ranks
Beaver ranks lower within Arkansas (53rd percentile statewide) than its 68th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Beaver ranks 10,138 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,699 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 292 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Beaver
Beaver's 68th-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.
Hardening a home in Beaver
With 89.7% of Beaver in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Beaver's 68th-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 Beaver, see the exposure-zones guide.