Fifty-Six, AR
Fifty-Six, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fifty-Six lands at the 78th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 163 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fifty-Six at the 81st national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Fifty-Six's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Fifty-Six: 100% of its 163 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Fifty-Six against the rest of the country
Fifty-Six scores 78th nationally and 74th 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, Fifty-Six ranks 6,864 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,274 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 159 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
Fifty-Six's 78th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Fifty-Six's 100% 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 Fifty-Six's 6,864-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Fifty-Six, see the exposure-zones guide.