Gillett, AR
Gillett wildfire risk explained
Gillett sits at the 7th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 463 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Gillett at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
62% of Gillett's 463 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 27.9% Direct and 10.2% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Gillett compares
Gillett scores 7th nationally and 4th 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, Gillett ranks 29,364 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,003 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 590 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
Gillett's low rating (7th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Gillett
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Gillett (62% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gillett's 29,364-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Gillett, see the exposure-zones guide.