Sunset, AR
How exposed is Sunset to wildfire?
Sunset's 151 buildings earn a 8th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places 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 Sunset at the 9th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Sunset's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 22.5% of Sunset's 151 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 77.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Sunset against the rest of the country
Sunset's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (4th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sunset ranks 28,924 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,834 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 588 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
Sunset's low rating (8th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Sunset's 77.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Sunset's figures come from
Sunset's 8th-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 Sunset's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.