Manila, AR
Manila wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Manila at the 16th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,821 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Manila's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 14th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 26% of Manila's 1,821 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 74% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Manila compares
There's little gap between Manila's 16th national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Manila ranks 26,621 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,001 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 566 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
Manila's low wildfire rating (16th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 74% of Manila outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Manila's 16th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Manila, see the exposure-zones guide.