Mountain Pine, AR
Mountain Pine wildfire risk explained
Mountain Pine's 419 buildings earn a 72nd-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 Mountain Pine at the 75th percentile, close to its 72nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Mountain Pine (81.4% of 419 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 18.6% sit in the Direct zone.
How Mountain Pine compares
Mountain Pine scores 72nd nationally and 58th 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, Mountain Pine ranks 8,844 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,831 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 256 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Mountain Pine and the insurance market
Mountain Pine's high rating (72nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Mountain Pine
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Mountain Pine (81.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Mountain Pine's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mountain Pine's 8,844-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mountain Pine's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.