Highfill, AR
How exposed is Highfill to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Highfill lands at the 84th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,090 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Highfill at the 86th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 82.4% of Highfill's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 17.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 898 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Highfill compares
There's little gap between Highfill's 84th national percentile and its 90th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Highfill ranks 5,092 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,337 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 61 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Highfill and the insurance market
Highfill's 84th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 82.4% of Highfill 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Highfill's 5,092-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Highfill, see the exposure-zones guide.