East End, AR
East End wildfire risk explained
East End sits at the 57th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,902 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East End at the 59th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
East End's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 89.3% of East End's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 10.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 3,483 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where East End ranks
East End's 57th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 37th ranking inside Arkansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 20 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East End ranks 13,450 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,339 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 388 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East End
At the 57th national percentile, East End rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
East End's 89.3% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind East End's 13,450-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond East End, see the exposure-zones guide.