Oak Grove Heights, AR
How exposed is Oak Grove Heights to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Oak Grove Heights at the 54th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 639 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Oak Grove Heights at the 57th percentile, close to its 54th-percentile risk score.
Where Oak Grove Heights's buildings actually sit
88.7% of Oak Grove Heights's 639 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 567 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 11.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Oak Grove Heights against the rest of the country
Inside Arkansas, Oak Grove Heights sits at just the 30th percentile even though it scores 54th 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, Oak Grove Heights ranks 14,518 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,337 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 430 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Oak Grove Heights and the insurance market
Oak Grove Heights's elevated wildfire rating (54th 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.
Hardening a home in Oak Grove Heights
With 88.7% of Oak Grove Heights in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Oak Grove Heights's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 639 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Oak Grove Heights. The exposure-zones guide covers what Oak Grove Heights's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.