Mammoth Spring, AR
How exposed is Mammoth Spring to wildfire?
Mammoth Spring sits at the 75th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 731 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 Mammoth Spring at the 78th percentile, close to its 75th-percentile risk score.
Where Mammoth Spring's buildings actually sit
731 buildings are counted in Mammoth Spring, and 56.5% 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.
Where Mammoth Spring ranks
Mammoth Spring's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (66th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (75th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mammoth Spring ranks 7,749 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,316 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 208 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mammoth Spring
Mammoth Spring's 75th-percentile, 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
Mammoth Spring's 56.5% 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 Mammoth Spring's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 731 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mammoth Spring. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mammoth Spring's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.