Hoxie, AR
Hoxie wildfire risk explained
Hoxie sits at the 45th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,691 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hoxie at the 47th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Hoxie's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 69.7% of Hoxie's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 24.3% Direct and 6% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Hoxie ranks
Hoxie's 45th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 21st ranking inside Arkansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hoxie ranks 17,292 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,453 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 484 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Hoxie and the insurance market
Hoxie's elevated wildfire rating (45th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 69.7% of Hoxie outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Hoxie's 45th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hoxie, see the exposure-zones guide.