Gum Springs, AR
How exposed is Gum Springs to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Gum Springs at the 55th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 96 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Gum Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 58th percentile nationally.
Gum Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Gum Springs's 96 counted buildings, 97.9% 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.
Gum Springs against the rest of the country
Gum Springs's 55th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 33rd ranking inside Arkansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 22 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gum Springs ranks 14,046 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,217 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 410 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Gum Springs and the insurance market
Gum Springs's elevated rating (55th 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 Gum Springs
Because Direct exposure dominates in Gum Springs (97.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Gum Springs's figures come from
Gum Springs's 55th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Gum Springs's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.