Blytheville, AR
Blytheville, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Blytheville's 8,487 buildings earn a 6th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places 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 Blytheville at the 7th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Blytheville's buildings (82.4% of 8,487) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 8,487 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Blytheville ranks
Blytheville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (3rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (6th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blytheville ranks 29,646 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,958 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 593 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
Blytheville's low wildfire rating (6th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Blytheville
Even with 82.4% of Blytheville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Blytheville's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Blytheville, see the exposure-zones guide.