Dumas, AR
How exposed is Dumas to wildfire?
USFS scores Dumas at the 8th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 2,145 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dumas's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
Dumas's building exposure, zone by zone
Dumas rates 88.3% Minimal exposure against just 11.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 2,145 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Dumas compares
There's little gap between Dumas's 8th national percentile and its 4th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dumas ranks 28,953 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,082 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 589 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Dumas and the insurance market
Dumas's low rating (8th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Dumas
Even with 88.3% of Dumas 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.
Where Dumas's figures come from
Dumas's 8th-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 Dumas's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.