Gentry, AR
Gentry wildfire risk explained
Gentry's 1,835 buildings earn a 88th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Gentry's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 90th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 64.1% of Gentry's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 35.9% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 1,176 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Gentry ranks
There's little gap between Gentry's 88th national percentile and its 97th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gentry ranks 3,706 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,961 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 19 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Gentry and the insurance market
Gentry's 88th-percentile, very 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 64.1% of Gentry 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.
More on how this number was built
Gentry's 88th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Gentry, see the exposure-zones guide.