Marie, AR
Marie, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Marie's 39 buildings earn a 0th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Marie at the 0th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Marie's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 66.7% of Marie's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 33.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Marie against the rest of the country
Marie scores 0th nationally and 0th within Arkansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marie ranks 31,443 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,188 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 614 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Marie and the insurance market
Marie's low rating (0th 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 Marie
Even with 66.7% of Marie 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.
Where Marie's figures come from
Marie's 0th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Marie's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.