Batesville, AR
How exposed is Batesville to wildfire?
Batesville sits at the 71st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 5,494 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Batesville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 74th percentile nationally.
Batesville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 60.8% of Batesville's 5,494 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 35.5% Direct and 3.7% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 5,494 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Batesville ranks
Batesville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (57th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (71st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Batesville ranks 9,099 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,141 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 262 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Batesville's high rating (71st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Batesville's 60.8% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,494 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Batesville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Batesville, see the exposure-zones guide.