McCrory, AR
How exposed is McCrory to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, McCrory lands at the 47th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 969 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts McCrory at the 48th percentile, close to its 47th-percentile risk score.
Where McCrory's buildings actually sit
Only 19.4% of McCrory's 969 buildings carry Direct exposure and 2.3% carry Indirect; the remaining 78.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How McCrory compares
McCrory's 47th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 23rd ranking inside Arkansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, McCrory ranks 16,692 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,156 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 475 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
McCrory's elevated rating (47th 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 McCrory
Even with 78.3% of McCrory 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
McCrory's 47th-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 McCrory, see the exposure-zones guide.