North Crossett, AR
North Crossett, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores North Crossett at the 61st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,739 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, North Crossett's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 60th percentile nationally.
North Crossett's building exposure, zone by zone
1,739 buildings are counted in North Crossett, and 68.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 31.6% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
North Crossett against the rest of the country
Inside Arkansas, North Crossett sits at just the 43rd percentile even though it scores 61st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Crossett ranks 12,436 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,268 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 353 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
North Crossett's 61st-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in North Crossett
Because 68.4% of North Crossett's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,739 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for North Crossett. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond North Crossett, see the exposure-zones guide.