Piney, AR
How exposed is Piney to wildfire?
USFS scores Piney at the 67th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,779 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Piney at the 70th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
Where Piney's buildings actually sit
2,779 buildings are counted in Piney, and 50.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 45.5% in Direct exposure or the 4.3% rated Minimal.
How Piney compares
Inside Arkansas, Piney sits at just the 50th percentile even though it scores 67th 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, Piney ranks 10,545 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,804 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 304 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Piney and the insurance market
At the 67th percentile nationally, Piney carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 50.3% of Piney'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
Piney's 67th-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 Piney, see the exposure-zones guide.