Fourche, AR
Fourche wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Fourche at the 74th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 43 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fourche's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 78th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Fourche's 43 counted buildings, 100% 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.
Where Fourche ranks
Fourche scores 74th nationally and 62nd 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, Fourche ranks 8,151 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,092 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 233 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Fourche and the insurance market
At the 74th percentile nationally, Fourche carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Fourche (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fourche's 8,151-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Fourche, see the exposure-zones guide.