Oil Trough, AR
How exposed is Oil Trough to wildfire?
Oil Trough's 153 buildings earn a 44th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Oil Trough at the 46th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Oil Trough's buildings actually sit
Oil Trough rates 64.1% Minimal exposure against just 36% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 153 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Oil Trough compares
Oil Trough ranks lower within Arkansas (21st percentile statewide) than its 44th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oil Trough ranks 17,669 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,735 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 486 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Oil Trough and the insurance market
Oil Trough's elevated rating (44th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Oil Trough
Oil Trough's 64.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Oil Trough's 44th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Oil Trough, see the exposure-zones guide.