Mount Judea, AR
Mount Judea wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mount Judea at the 85th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 146 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mount Judea's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 87th percentile nationally.
Mount Judea's building exposure, zone by zone
146 buildings are counted in Mount Judea, and 93.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Mount Judea compares
Mount Judea scores 85th nationally and 93rd within Arkansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Judea ranks 4,686 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,009 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 44 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Mount Judea and the insurance market
At the 85th percentile nationally, Mount Judea carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Mount Judea's 93.2% 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.
Where Mount Judea's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mount Judea's 4,686-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mount Judea's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.