Cherry Valley, AR
Cherry Valley wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Cherry Valley at the 46th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 362 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cherry Valley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 48th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
362 buildings are counted in Cherry Valley, and 51.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Cherry Valley ranks
Inside Arkansas, Cherry Valley sits at just the 22nd percentile even though it scores 46th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cherry Valley ranks 16,945 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,012 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 479 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cherry Valley
Cherry Valley's elevated rating (46th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Cherry Valley's 51.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Cherry Valley's 46th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cherry Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.