Sulphur Rock, AR
Sulphur Rock, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sulphur Rock at the 78th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 377 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sulphur Rock at the 82nd national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Sulphur Rock's building exposure, zone by zone
377 buildings are counted in Sulphur Rock, and 88.6% 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.
Sulphur Rock against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Sulphur Rock's 78th national percentile and its 73rd percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sulphur Rock ranks 6,956 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,711 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 164 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
At the 78th percentile nationally, Sulphur Rock carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Sulphur Rock's 88.6% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sulphur Rock's 6,956-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sulphur Rock, see the exposure-zones guide.