Rover, AR
Rover wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Rover at the 76th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 227 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rover's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 79th percentile nationally.
Rover's building exposure, zone by zone
100% of Rover's 227 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 227 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Rover against the rest of the country
Rover scores 76th nationally and 67th within Arkansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rover ranks 7,712 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,879 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 205 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rover
Rover's 76th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 100% of Rover in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Rover's 76th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Rover, see the exposure-zones guide.