Lead Hill, AR
Lead Hill wildfire risk explained
Lead Hill sits at the 81st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 241 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lead Hill at the 84th percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
Where Lead Hill's buildings actually sit
241 buildings are counted in Lead Hill, and 52.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 47.7% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Lead Hill ranks
Lead Hill's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (84th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (81st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lead Hill ranks 5,947 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,416 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 97 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Lead Hill and the insurance market
Lead Hill's very high rating (81st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Lead Hill's 52.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Lead Hill's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lead Hill's 5,947-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lead Hill's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.