Walnut Ridge, AR
Walnut Ridge, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Walnut Ridge's 2,993 buildings earn a 40th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Walnut Ridge at the 42nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Walnut Ridge's buildings actually sit
Most of Walnut Ridge's buildings (81.5% of 2,993) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Walnut Ridge compares
Walnut Ridge's 40th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 19th ranking inside Arkansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 21 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walnut Ridge ranks 18,995 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,449 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 500 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Walnut Ridge
Walnut Ridge's moderate rating (40th 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
With 81.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Walnut Ridge gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Walnut Ridge's figures come from
Walnut Ridge's 40th-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 Walnut Ridge's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.