Dyess, AR
How exposed is Dyess to wildfire?
Dyess's 165 buildings earn a 7th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dyess at the 6th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Dyess rates 65.5% Minimal exposure against just 34.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 165 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Dyess ranks
Dyess scores 7th nationally and 4th 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, Dyess ranks 29,458 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,205 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 591 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dyess
Dyess's low rating (7th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Dyess's 65.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Dyess's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Dyess, see the exposure-zones guide.