Summit, AR
Summit, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Summit's 336 buildings earn a 81st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Summit at the 84th percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Summit: 54.8% of its 336 buildings, versus 45.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Summit ranks
There's little gap between Summit's 81st national percentile and its 84th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Summit ranks 5,949 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,673 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 99 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Summit and the insurance market
Summit'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.
Hardening a home in Summit
Summit's 54.8% 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.
Where Summit's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 336 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Summit. The exposure-zones guide covers what Summit's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.