Midway (Baxter), AR
Midway (Baxter) wildfire risk explained
Midway (Baxter)'s 808 buildings earn a 79th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Midway (Baxter) at the 81st percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
Where Midway (Baxter)'s buildings actually sit
86.3% of Midway (Baxter)'s 808 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 697 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 13.7% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Midway (Baxter) against the rest of the country
Midway (Baxter)'s risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (77th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (79th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Midway (Baxter) ranks 6,642 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,562 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 144 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
Midway (Baxter)'s 79th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 86.3% of Midway (Baxter) in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 808 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Midway (Baxter). For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Midway (Baxter), see the exposure-zones guide.