Nimmons, AR
How exposed is Nimmons to wildfire?
Nimmons sits at the 19th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 64 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Nimmons at the 19th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Nimmons: 51.6% of its 64 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 48.4% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Nimmons compares
Nimmons scores 19th nationally and 9th 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, Nimmons ranks 25,422 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,494 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 559 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nimmons
Nimmons's low wildfire rating (19th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Nimmons (51.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nimmons's 25,422-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Nimmons, see the exposure-zones guide.