Wilmot, AR
Wilmot wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Wilmot lands at the 33rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 399 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wilmot at the 33rd percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
Where Wilmot's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 54.4% of Wilmot's 399 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 39.1% Direct and 6.5% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Wilmot against the rest of the country
Inside Arkansas, Wilmot sits at just the 16th percentile even though it scores 33rd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wilmot ranks 21,042 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,222 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 519 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wilmot
At the 33rd national percentile, Wilmot rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Wilmot's 54.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wilmot's 21,042-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wilmot, see the exposure-zones guide.