Evening Shade, AR
Evening Shade, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Evening Shade at the 77th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 326 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Evening Shade's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 80th percentile nationally.
Evening Shade's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Evening Shade's 326 counted buildings, 73% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Evening Shade compares
Evening Shade scores 77th nationally and 71st 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, Evening Shade ranks 7,304 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,910 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 182 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
Evening Shade'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 Evening Shade
Evening Shade's 73% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 326 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Evening Shade. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Evening Shade, see the exposure-zones guide.