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Safety in Fountain Lake · Not graded

Fountain Lake has no Safety Grade

No FBI crime figures of its own exist for Fountain Lake for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade. For a graded neighbor, the nearest is Hot Springs (D), 11 miles away. Within a 25-mile drive lie 4 towns that have a grade.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Arkansas towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
Hot SpringsD11 mi5.245.2
MalvernD17 mi6.824.8
BentonC−20 mi4.422.3
BryantC24 mi1.521.2
AlexanderC−27 mi6.216.6
Shannon HillsB−29 mi2.97.3

Straight-line distance from the center of Fountain Lake. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Fountain Lake.

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

On the roads

Five people died in crashes on Fountain Lake’s roads in 2019–2023

Fountain Lake had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died.

That is more than is typical for Arkansas towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (6.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Fountain Lake’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Fountain Lake’s own rate (182.5) is context, not a ranking.

5
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
182.5
per 100,000 a year · Arkansas towns of 2,500–5,000: 6.5

Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.

Next door

Fountain Lake and its neighbors

Hot Springs Village: not gradedHot Springs VillageFountain Lake
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
Hot Springs Village———

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Hot Springs Village reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
  • A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
  • Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.

How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →

Questions about safety in Fountain Lake

Is Fountain Lake, AR safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Fountain Lake. Fountain Lake has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The nearest Arkansas towns with a grade are Hot Springs (D, 11 mi), Malvern (D, 17 mi), Benton (C−, 20 mi).

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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.