Oak Grove (Pope), AR
Oak Grove (Pope), AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Oak Grove (Pope) at the 80th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 183 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Oak Grove (Pope)'s burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 83rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
183 buildings are counted in Oak Grove (Pope), and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Oak Grove (Pope) ranks
Oak Grove (Pope) scores 80th nationally and 79th 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, Oak Grove (Pope) ranks 6,449 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,491 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 128 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Oak Grove (Pope) and the insurance market
Oak Grove (Pope)'s 80th-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 Oak Grove (Pope)
Oak Grove (Pope)'s 100% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 183 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Oak Grove (Pope). For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Oak Grove (Pope), see the exposure-zones guide.