Cotton Plant, AR
Cotton Plant wildfire risk explained
Cotton Plant's 463 buildings earn a 44th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cotton Plant at the 46th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Cotton Plant's building exposure, zone by zone
57.2% of Cotton Plant's 463 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 29.2% Direct and 13.6% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Cotton Plant ranks
Inside Arkansas, Cotton Plant sits at just the 20th percentile even though it scores 44th 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, Cotton Plant ranks 17,700 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,002 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 487 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cotton Plant
At the 44th national percentile, Cotton Plant rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 57.2% of Cotton Plant's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Cotton Plant's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cotton Plant's 17,700-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cotton Plant's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.