Magness, AR
How exposed is Magness to wildfire?
USFS scores Magness at the 69th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 136 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Magness at the 73rd national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
136 buildings are counted in Magness, and 88.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 11.8% rated Minimal.
Where Magness ranks
Inside Arkansas, Magness sits at just the 53rd percentile even though it scores 69th 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, Magness ranks 9,920 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,431 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 287 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 69th percentile nationally, Magness carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Magness's 88.2% 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 Magness's 9,920-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Magness, see the exposure-zones guide.