Gateway, AR
Gateway wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Gateway at the 73rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 345 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Gateway at the 74th percentile, close to its 73rd-percentile risk score.
Gateway's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 100% of Gateway's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 345 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Gateway ranks
There's little gap between Gateway's 73rd national percentile and its 60th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gateway ranks 8,593 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,442 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 247 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gateway
Gateway'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.
Hardening a home in Gateway
With 100% of Gateway in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Gateway's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gateway's 8,593-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Gateway's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.