Little Rock, SC
Little Rock, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Little Rock lands at the 79th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 423 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 Little Rock at the 80th percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
423 buildings are counted in Little Rock, and 71.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Little Rock against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Little Rock's 79th national percentile and its 82nd percentile inside South Carolina, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Little Rock ranks 6,531 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,783 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 86 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Little Rock and the insurance market
Little Rock's high rating (79th 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.
Hardening a home in Little Rock
Little Rock's 71.6% 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.
Where Little Rock's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Little Rock's 6,531-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Little Rock's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.