Bodcaw, AR
Bodcaw, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bodcaw sits at the 61st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 145 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bodcaw at the 62nd national percentile — 1 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
100% of Bodcaw's 145 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 145 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Bodcaw against the rest of the country
Inside Arkansas, Bodcaw sits at just the 44th percentile even though it scores 61st 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, Bodcaw ranks 12,249 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,060 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 347 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bodcaw
Bodcaw's 61st-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 100% of Bodcaw 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.
Where Bodcaw's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 145 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bodcaw. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bodcaw's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.