Mount Holly, AR
Mount Holly wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Mount Holly at the 55th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 140 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Holly at the 56th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mount Holly's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Mount Holly's 140 counted buildings, 97.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Mount Holly ranks
Mount Holly ranks lower within Arkansas (33rd percentile statewide) than its 55th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Holly ranks 14,171 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,277 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 416 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Mount Holly and the insurance market
Mount Holly's elevated rating (55th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Mount Holly's 97.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Mount Holly's 55th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mount Holly, see the exposure-zones guide.