Lonoke, AR
Lonoke wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lonoke at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,976 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lonoke at the 38th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lonoke's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 51.1% of Lonoke's 1,976 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 20.5% Direct and 28.4% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Lonoke ranks
Lonoke's 36th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 17th ranking inside Arkansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 20 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lonoke ranks 20,095 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,544 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 512 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
Lonoke's moderate rating (36th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Lonoke
Lonoke's 51.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,976 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lonoke. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lonoke, see the exposure-zones guide.