Forrest City, AR
Forrest City, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Forrest City lands at the 47th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 4,762 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Forrest City at the 50th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
4,762 buildings are counted in Forrest City, and 61.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 30.2% in Direct exposure or the 8.3% rated Minimal.
How Forrest City compares
Forrest City's 47th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 23rd 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, Forrest City ranks 16,597 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,581 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 471 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Forrest City's elevated wildfire rating (47th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Forrest City
Because 61.6% of Forrest City'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.
More on how this number was built
Forrest City's 47th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Forrest City, see the exposure-zones guide.