South Lead Hill, AR
South Lead Hill, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, South Lead Hill lands at the 81st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 66 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts South Lead Hill at the 84th percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of South Lead Hill's 66 counted buildings, 77.3% 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.
South Lead Hill against the rest of the country
South Lead Hill scores 81st nationally and 85th 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, South Lead Hill ranks 5,854 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,409 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 91 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
South Lead Hill's 81st-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
South Lead Hill's 77.3% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 66 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for South Lead Hill. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond South Lead Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.