Ravenden Springs, AR
Ravenden Springs wildfire risk explained
Ravenden Springs sits at the 72nd 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 116 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ravenden Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 76th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Ravenden Springs's 116 counted buildings, 86.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Ravenden Springs against the rest of the country
Ravenden Springs's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (59th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (72nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ravenden Springs ranks 8,719 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,347 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 253 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Ravenden Springs and the insurance market
Ravenden Springs's high rating (72nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Ravenden Springs
Because Direct exposure dominates in Ravenden Springs (86.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ravenden Springs's 8,719-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ravenden Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.