Farmington, AR
How exposed is Farmington to wildfire?
USFS scores Farmington at the 85th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 3,478 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Farmington at the 88th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Where Farmington's buildings actually sit
66.6% of Farmington's 3,478 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 2,317 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 33.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0.2% are Minimal.
How Farmington compares
Farmington's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (94th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (85th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Farmington ranks 4,621 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,795 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 40 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Farmington
Farmington's 85th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 66.6% of Farmington in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Farmington's 85th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Farmington, see the exposure-zones guide.