Clinton, AR
How exposed is Clinton to wildfire?
Clinton sits at the 80th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,695 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Clinton at the 83rd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Clinton's building exposure, zone by zone
67.4% of Clinton's 1,695 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,142 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 32.6% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Clinton against the rest of the country
Clinton's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (80th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (80th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clinton ranks 6,416 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,434 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 124 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
Clinton's 80th-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.
Hardening a home in Clinton
Clinton's 67.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Clinton's 6,416-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Clinton, see the exposure-zones guide.