De Valls Bluff, AR
How exposed is De Valls Bluff to wildfire?
USFS scores De Valls Bluff at the 52nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 359 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, De Valls Bluff's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 54th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of De Valls Bluff's 359 counted buildings, 52.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0.3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How De Valls Bluff compares
De Valls Bluff's 52nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 28th ranking inside Arkansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 25 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, De Valls Bluff ranks 15,052 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,078 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 443 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
De Valls Bluff's elevated wildfire rating (52nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in De Valls Bluff
De Valls Bluff's 52.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
De Valls Bluff's 52nd-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 De Valls Bluff, see the exposure-zones guide.