Hazen, AR
Hazen wildfire risk explained
Hazen's 880 buildings earn a 49th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hazen's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 50th percentile nationally.
Hazen's building exposure, zone by zone
47.7% of Hazen's 880 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 39.4% Direct and 12.8% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Hazen compares
Inside Arkansas, Hazen sits at just the 24th percentile even though it scores 49th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hazen ranks 16,222 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,908 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 465 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Hazen and the insurance market
Hazen's elevated wildfire rating (49th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 47.7% of Hazen's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Hazen's figures come from
Hazen's 49th-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 Hazen's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.