Conway, AR
How exposed is Conway to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Conway lands at the 71st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 21,687 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Conway at the 75th percentile, close to its 71st-percentile risk score.
Conway's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 17.5% of Conway's 21,687 buildings carry Direct exposure and 39.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 43.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 21,687 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Conway against the rest of the country
Conway scores 71st nationally and 57th within Arkansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Conway ranks 9,100 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 635 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 263 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Conway and the insurance market
At the 71st percentile nationally, Conway carries the 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 43.3% of Conway outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Conway's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 21,687 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Conway. The exposure-zones guide covers what Conway's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.