Hickory Ridge, AR
Hickory Ridge wildfire risk explained
Hickory Ridge's 197 buildings earn a 26th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hickory Ridge at the 27th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
Hickory Ridge's building exposure, zone by zone
Hickory Ridge rates 75.6% Minimal exposure against just 24.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 197 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Hickory Ridge compares
There's little gap between Hickory Ridge's 26th national percentile and its 12th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hickory Ridge ranks 23,216 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,949 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 539 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
At the 26th national percentile, Hickory Ridge rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hickory Ridge's 75.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hickory Ridge's 23,216-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hickory Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.