Mulberry, AR
Mulberry wildfire risk explained
Mulberry's 1,185 buildings earn a 85th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mulberry at the 89th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Mulberry's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Mulberry's 1,185 counted buildings, 55.4% 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 Mulberry compares
There's little gap between Mulberry's 85th national percentile and its 92nd percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mulberry ranks 4,779 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,736 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 48 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Mulberry and the insurance market
At the 85th percentile nationally, Mulberry 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
Mulberry's 55.4% 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 Mulberry's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mulberry's 4,779-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mulberry's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.