Centerton, AR
Centerton wildfire risk explained
Centerton's 5,915 buildings earn a 80th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Centerton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 82nd percentile nationally.
Centerton's building exposure, zone by zone
Centerton rates 46.1% Minimal exposure against just 39.9% Direct and 14% Indirect — of 5,915 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 5,915 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Centerton against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Centerton's 80th national percentile and its 82nd percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Centerton ranks 6,231 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,911 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 113 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Centerton
At the 80th percentile nationally, Centerton carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
With 46.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Centerton gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Centerton's 80th-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 Centerton, see the exposure-zones guide.