Rudy, AR
Rudy, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Rudy lands at the 90th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 158 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rudy's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 93rd percentile nationally.
Rudy's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Rudy's 158 counted buildings, 83.5% 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.
Rudy against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Rudy's 90th national percentile and its 99th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rudy ranks 3,108 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,515 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 10 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Rudy and the insurance market
Rudy's 90th-percentile, very 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 Rudy (83.5%), 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
Rudy's 90th-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 Rudy, see the exposure-zones guide.