Pleasant Plains, AR
How exposed is Pleasant Plains to wildfire?
USFS scores Pleasant Plains at the 87th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 281 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 Plains at the 90th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pleasant Plains's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 85.8% of Pleasant Plains's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 14.2% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 241 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Pleasant Plains compares
There's little gap between Pleasant Plains's 87th national percentile and its 95th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Plains ranks 4,025 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,144 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 29 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Pleasant Plains's 87th-percentile, very 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 Pleasant Plains
Pleasant Plains's 85.8% 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.
Where Pleasant Plains's figures come from
Pleasant Plains's 87th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleasant Plains's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.