Green Forest, AR
Green Forest, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Green Forest's 1,266 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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Green Forest's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 78th percentile nationally.
Green Forest's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Green Forest's buildings (68.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Green Forest against the rest of the country
Green Forest 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, Green Forest ranks 7,680 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,266 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 202 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Green Forest and the insurance market
Green Forest'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Green Forest (68.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Green Forest's figures come from
Green Forest's 76th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Green Forest's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.