Caddo Gap, AR
How exposed is Caddo Gap to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Caddo Gap at the 77th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 40 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Caddo Gap's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 79th percentile nationally.
Where Caddo Gap's buildings actually sit
Of Caddo Gap's 40 counted buildings, 85% 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 Caddo Gap ranks
Caddo Gap's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (70th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (77th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Caddo Gap ranks 7,303 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,163 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 181 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Caddo Gap
Caddo Gap'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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Caddo Gap (85%), 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Caddo Gap's 7,303-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Caddo Gap, see the exposure-zones guide.