Concord, AR
Concord, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Concord's 257 buildings earn a 86th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Concord at the 88th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Concord's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Concord's 257 counted buildings, 88.3% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Concord compares
Concord's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (95th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (86th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Concord ranks 4,498 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,908 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 36 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Concord and the insurance market
Concord's 86th-percentile, very 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 Concord
Concord's 88.3% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 257 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Concord. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Concord, see the exposure-zones guide.