Smackover, AR
Smackover wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Smackover at the 52nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,202 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 Smackover at the 53rd percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
Where Smackover's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 80.5% of Smackover's 1,202 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 19.6% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Smackover compares
Inside Arkansas, Smackover sits at just the 27th percentile even though it scores 52nd 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, Smackover ranks 15,242 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,637 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 449 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Smackover and the insurance market
Smackover's elevated rating (52nd 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 Smackover
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Smackover (80.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Smackover's figures come from
Smackover's 52nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Smackover's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.