Cave Springs, AR
Cave Springs, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cave Springs's 2,398 buildings earn a 77th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cave Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 79th percentile nationally.
Cave Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 77.2% of Cave Springs's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 13.8% Indirect share and far above its 8.9% Minimal share — a profile where 1,852 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Cave Springs against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Cave Springs's 77th national percentile and its 69th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cave Springs ranks 7,396 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,517 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 189 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cave Springs
Cave Springs'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.
Hardening a home in Cave Springs
Because Direct exposure dominates in Cave Springs (77.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Cave Springs's figures come from
Cave Springs's 77th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cave Springs's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.