Wickes, AR
Wickes, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Wickes's 425 buildings earn a 84th-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 Wickes at the 88th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Wickes's 425 counted buildings, 71.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Wickes compares
There's little gap between Wickes's 84th national percentile and its 92nd percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wickes ranks 4,904 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,739 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 52 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wickes
Wickes's 84th-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 Wickes
Wickes's 71.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wickes's 4,904-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wickes, see the exposure-zones guide.