Mineral Springs, AR
Mineral Springs wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mineral Springs at the 61st national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 723 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mineral Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 64th percentile nationally.
Where Mineral Springs's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Mineral Springs: 60.4% of its 723 buildings, versus 39.6% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Mineral Springs compares
Mineral Springs's 61st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 43rd ranking inside Arkansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 18 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mineral Springs ranks 12,342 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,412 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 349 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mineral Springs
Mineral Springs's 61st-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.
Hardening a home in Mineral Springs
With 60.4% of Mineral Springs 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.
Where Mineral Springs's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mineral Springs's 12,342-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mineral Springs's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.