Pleasant Grove, AR
Pleasant Grove, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Pleasant Grove at the 82nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 194 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pleasant Grove at the 85th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pleasant Grove's buildings actually sit
194 buildings are counted in Pleasant Grove, 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 Pleasant Grove ranks
Pleasant Grove's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (87th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (82nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Grove ranks 5,632 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,053 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 77 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Pleasant Grove and the insurance market
At the 82nd percentile nationally, Pleasant Grove carries the very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Pleasant Grove'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasant Grove's 5,632-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pleasant Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.