Western Grove, AR
Western Grove, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Western Grove's 297 buildings earn a 83rd-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Western Grove's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 86th percentile nationally.
Western Grove's building exposure, zone by zone
297 buildings are counted in Western Grove, and 91.9% 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.
Where Western Grove ranks
Western Grove scores 83rd nationally and 89th 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, Western Grove ranks 5,315 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,699 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 66 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Western Grove
Western Grove's 83rd-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 Western Grove (91.9%), 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Western Grove's 5,315-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Western Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.