Lawson, AR
Lawson wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lawson lands at the 56th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 229 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 Lawson at the 56th percentile, close to its 56th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
99.6% of Lawson's 229 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 228 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.4% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Lawson against the rest of the country
Inside Arkansas, Lawson sits at just the 33rd percentile even though it scores 56th 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, Lawson ranks 14,015 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,812 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 408 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 56th national percentile, Lawson rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Lawson's 99.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lawson's 14,015-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lawson, see the exposure-zones guide.