Caulksville, AR
Caulksville, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Caulksville at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 233 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Caulksville at the 86th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Caulksville's buildings actually sit
233 buildings are counted in Caulksville, and 77.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Caulksville compares
Caulksville scores 81st nationally and 85th 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, Caulksville ranks 5,912 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,695 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 95 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
Caulksville's 81st-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 77.3% of Caulksville 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
Caulksville's 81st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Caulksville, see the exposure-zones guide.