Fayetteville, AR
Fayetteville, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fayetteville lands at the 82nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 32,912 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fayetteville at the 85th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Fayetteville's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 33% of Fayetteville's 32,912 buildings carry Direct exposure and 24.8% carry Indirect; the remaining 42.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 32,912 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Fayetteville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Fayetteville's 82nd national percentile and its 89th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fayetteville ranks 5,536 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 332 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 71 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fayetteville
Fayetteville's very high rating (82nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Fayetteville
Even with 42.2% of Fayetteville 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 Fayetteville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fayetteville's 5,536-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fayetteville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.