Gurdon, AR
Gurdon, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Gurdon at the 57th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,205 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 Gurdon at the 58th percentile, close to its 57th-percentile risk score.
Gurdon's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Gurdon's buildings (66.9%) 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.
Gurdon against the rest of the country
Inside Arkansas, Gurdon sits at just the 36th percentile even though it scores 57th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gurdon ranks 13,667 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,618 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 394 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
Gurdon's elevated wildfire rating (57th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Gurdon (66.9% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,205 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Gurdon. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Gurdon, see the exposure-zones guide.