Fouke, AR
Fouke wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fouke lands at the 73rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 525 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fouke at the 75th percentile, close to its 73rd-percentile risk score.
Where Fouke's buildings actually sit
Most of Fouke's buildings (62.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Fouke compares
Fouke scores 73rd nationally and 61st 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, Fouke ranks 8,371 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,931 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 238 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Fouke and the insurance market
Fouke's 73rd-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
Because 62.5% of Fouke's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Fouke's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 525 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fouke. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fouke's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.