Blue Eye, AR
Blue Eye wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Blue Eye at the 77th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 40 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Blue Eye at the 79th percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 67.5% of Blue Eye's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 32.5% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 27 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Blue Eye ranks
There's little gap between Blue Eye's 77th national percentile and its 70th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blue Eye ranks 7,366 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,162 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 187 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Blue Eye and the insurance market
Blue Eye's 77th-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
With 67.5% of Blue Eye 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blue Eye's 7,366-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Blue Eye, see the exposure-zones guide.