Summers, AR
Summers, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Summers at the 92nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 168 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Summers at the 94th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 100% of Summers's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 168 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Summers compares
Summers scores 92nd nationally and 99th 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, Summers ranks 2,541 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,090 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 6 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Summers and the insurance market
Summers's 92nd-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Summers (100%), 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 168 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Summers. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Summers, see the exposure-zones guide.