Rosston, AR
Rosston wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rosston at the 61st national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 197 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rosston at the 61st percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Rosston's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Rosston's 197 counted buildings, 98% 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.
How Rosston compares
Inside Arkansas, Rosston sits at just the 42nd percentile even though it scores 61st 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, Rosston ranks 12,437 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,951 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 354 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rosston
Rosston's 61st-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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Rosston (98%), 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 Rosston's 12,437-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Rosston, see the exposure-zones guide.