Bee Branch, AR
How exposed is Bee Branch to wildfire?
Bee Branch's 264 buildings earn a 83rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bee Branch at the 86th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 96.6% of Bee Branch's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 3.4% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 255 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Bee Branch ranks
Bee Branch scores 83rd nationally and 89th within Arkansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bee Branch ranks 5,440 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,689 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 69 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Bee Branch and the insurance market
Bee Branch's 83rd-percentile, very 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 Bee Branch
Because Direct exposure dominates in Bee Branch (96.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 264 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bee Branch. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bee Branch, see the exposure-zones guide.