Highland, AR
Highland, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Highland at the 74th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 818 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Highland at the 77th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Highland's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 90.1% of Highland's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 9.5% Indirect share and far above its 0.4% Minimal share — a profile where 737 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Highland against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Highland's 74th national percentile and its 62nd percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Highland ranks 8,339 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,469 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 237 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Highland
Highland's high rating (74th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 90.1% of Highland 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 Highland's 8,339-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Highland, see the exposure-zones guide.