McDougal, AR
McDougal, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores McDougal at the 10th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 169 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks McDougal at the 10th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of McDougal's buildings (64.5% of 169) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where McDougal ranks
There's little gap between McDougal's 10th national percentile and its 5th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, McDougal ranks 28,480 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,056 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 584 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
McDougal and the insurance market
At the 10th national percentile, McDougal rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 64.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, McDougal gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 169 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for McDougal. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond McDougal, see the exposure-zones guide.