Bentonville, AR
Bentonville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Bentonville at the 76th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 17,947 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bentonville at the 78th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Bentonville's buildings actually sit
36.7% of Bentonville's 17,947 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 29.3% Direct and 34% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 17,947 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Bentonville ranks
There's little gap between Bentonville's 76th national percentile and its 68th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bentonville ranks 7,491 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 802 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 194 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
Bentonville's high rating (76th 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
Because 36.7% of Bentonville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Bentonville's figures come from
Bentonville's 76th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bentonville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.