Gravette, AR
Gravette wildfire risk explained
Gravette's 2,172 buildings earn a 82nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Gravette's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 84th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
73.7% of Gravette's 2,172 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,600 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 26.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Gravette ranks
Gravette scores 82nd nationally and 88th 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, Gravette ranks 5,599 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,015 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 75 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gravette
Gravette's 82nd-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.
Hardening a home in Gravette
With 73.7% of Gravette 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
Gravette's 82nd-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 Gravette, see the exposure-zones guide.