Gassville, AR
Gassville, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Gassville's 1,126 buildings earn a 79th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Gassville at the 82nd percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
Gassville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Gassville's buildings (53.8%) 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.
Where Gassville ranks
Gassville scores 79th nationally and 78th 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, Gassville ranks 6,514 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,108 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 134 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
Gassville's 79th-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
Gassville's 53.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,126 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Gassville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Gassville, see the exposure-zones guide.