El Dorado, AR
How exposed is El Dorado to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, El Dorado lands at the 46th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 9,459 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks El Dorado at the 47th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
El Dorado's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of El Dorado's buildings (83.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 9,459 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where El Dorado ranks
El Dorado's 46th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 22nd ranking inside Arkansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, El Dorado ranks 16,946 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,726 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 480 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in El Dorado
El Dorado'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
Because 83.5% of El Dorado'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 El Dorado's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind El Dorado's 16,946-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what El Dorado's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.