Greenland, AR
How exposed is Greenland to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Greenland at the 89th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 751 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Greenland at the 92nd percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 61.8% of Greenland's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 38.2% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 464 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Greenland compares
Greenland's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (98th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (89th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greenland ranks 3,361 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,112 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 12 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Greenland
Greenland's 89th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Greenland's 61.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Greenland's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 751 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Greenland. The exposure-zones guide covers what Greenland's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.