Marked Tree, AR
Marked Tree wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Marked Tree at the 34th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,235 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Marked Tree at the 30th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Marked Tree rates 81.5% Minimal exposure against just 17.6% Direct and 1% Indirect — of 1,235 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Marked Tree ranks
Inside Arkansas, Marked Tree sits at just the 16th percentile even though it scores 34th 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, Marked Tree ranks 20,789 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,436 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 518 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Marked Tree and the insurance market
Marked Tree's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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
Marked Tree's 81.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Marked Tree's 20,789-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Marked Tree, see the exposure-zones guide.