Jacksonville, AR
How exposed is Jacksonville to wildfire?
Jacksonville's 11,463 buildings earn a 63rd-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Jacksonville at the 66th percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
Jacksonville's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Jacksonville (76.3% of 11,463 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 18.5% sit in the Direct zone. At 11,463 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Jacksonville compares
Inside Arkansas, Jacksonville sits at just the 47th percentile even though it scores 63rd 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, Jacksonville ranks 11,775 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,374 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 329 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jacksonville
Jacksonville's 63rd-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
Because 76.3% of Jacksonville'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.
More on how this number was built
Jacksonville's 63rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Jacksonville, see the exposure-zones guide.