Greenwood, AR
Greenwood wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Greenwood lands at the 85th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 4,290 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Greenwood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 88th percentile nationally.
Where Greenwood's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 63.2% of Greenwood's 4,290 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 36.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Greenwood compares
Greenwood's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (94th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (85th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greenwood ranks 4,658 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,982 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 42 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Greenwood and the insurance market
At the 85th percentile nationally, Greenwood carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Greenwood
Greenwood's 63.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Greenwood's 4,658-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Greenwood, see the exposure-zones guide.