Rye, AR
Rye, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rye at the 56th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 152 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rye at the 57th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Rye's building exposure, zone by zone
152 buildings are counted in Rye, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Rye ranks
Inside Arkansas, Rye sits at just the 35th percentile even though it scores 56th 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, Rye ranks 13,856 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,786 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 401 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Rye and the insurance market
Rye's elevated rating (56th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Rye
Rye's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Rye's 56th-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 Rye, see the exposure-zones guide.