Booneville, AR
Booneville, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Booneville at the 79th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,095 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Booneville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 83rd percentile nationally.
Where Booneville's buildings actually sit
Most of Booneville's buildings (75.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Booneville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Booneville's 79th national percentile and its 77th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Booneville ranks 6,609 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,205 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 142 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
Booneville's 79th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 75.2% of Booneville'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 Booneville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Booneville's 6,609-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Booneville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.