Glenwood, AR
How exposed is Glenwood to wildfire?
Glenwood's 1,507 buildings earn a 76th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glenwood at the 79th percentile, close to its 76th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,507 buildings are counted in Glenwood, and 50% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Glenwood against the rest of the country
Glenwood scores 76th nationally and 67th within Arkansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glenwood ranks 7,711 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,133 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 204 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
Glenwood's 76th-percentile, 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 50% of Glenwood 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Glenwood's 7,711-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Glenwood, see the exposure-zones guide.