Cash, AR
Cash wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Cash lands at the 21st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 208 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cash's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 21st percentile nationally.
Cash's building exposure, zone by zone
66.4% of Cash's 208 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 33.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Cash against the rest of the country
Cash's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (10th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (21st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cash ranks 24,919 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,542 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 553 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Cash's moderate rating (21st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 66.4% of Cash outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 208 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cash. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cash, see the exposure-zones guide.