Poplar Grove, AR
How exposed is Poplar Grove to wildfire?
Poplar Grove's 166 buildings earn a 36th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Poplar Grove at the 37th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Poplar Grove's buildings actually sit
166 buildings are counted in Poplar Grove, and 56.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 43.4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Poplar Grove ranks
Inside Arkansas, Poplar Grove sits at just the 17th percentile even though it scores 36th 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, Poplar Grove ranks 20,096 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,163 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 513 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Poplar Grove and the insurance market
Poplar Grove's moderate wildfire rating (36th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 56.6% of Poplar Grove'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.
Where Poplar Grove's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Poplar Grove's 20,096-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Poplar Grove's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.