Pocahontas, AR
Pocahontas wildfire risk explained
Pocahontas sits at the 65th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,543 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pocahontas at the 67th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Pocahontas's buildings (69%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Pocahontas against the rest of the country
Pocahontas's 65th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 49th ranking inside Arkansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 16 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pocahontas ranks 11,177 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,725 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 314 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
Pocahontas's 65th-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
Pocahontas's 69% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Pocahontas's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pocahontas's 11,177-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pocahontas's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.