Ola, AR
How exposed is Ola to wildfire?
Ola's 599 buildings earn a 73rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ola at the 76th percentile, close to its 73rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Ola (52.1% of 599 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 47.9% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Ola ranks
There's little gap between Ola's 73rd national percentile and its 60th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ola ranks 8,594 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,844 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 248 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ola
Ola's 73rd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 52.1% of Ola'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
Ola's 73rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ola, see the exposure-zones guide.