Mount Pleasant, AR
Mount Pleasant wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mount Pleasant at the 82nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 355 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Pleasant at the 85th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mount Pleasant's buildings actually sit
Of Mount Pleasant's 355 counted buildings, 86.5% 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.
How Mount Pleasant compares
There's little gap between Mount Pleasant's 82nd national percentile and its 86th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Pleasant ranks 5,820 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,178 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 88 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Mount Pleasant and the insurance market
At the 82nd percentile nationally, Mount Pleasant 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Mount Pleasant (86.5%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Mount Pleasant's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mount Pleasant's 5,820-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mount Pleasant's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.