Little Rock, OK
How exposed is Little Rock to wildfire?
Little Rock's 202 buildings earn a 91st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Little Rock's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 93rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Little Rock's 202 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Little Rock compares
Little Rock's 91st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 51st ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 40 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Little Rock ranks 2,932 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,780 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 408 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Little Rock
Little Rock's 91st-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Little Rock's 100% 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.
Where Little Rock's figures come from
Little Rock's 91st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Little Rock's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.