Jonesboro, AR
Jonesboro, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Jonesboro at the 47th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 30,404 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Jonesboro's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 49th percentile nationally.
Where Jonesboro's buildings actually sit
Only 40% of Jonesboro's 30,404 buildings carry Direct exposure and 12.6% carry Indirect; the remaining 47.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 30,404 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Jonesboro compares
Inside Arkansas, Jonesboro sits at just the 23rd percentile even though it scores 47th 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, Jonesboro ranks 16,630 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 375 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 473 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Jonesboro and the insurance market
Jonesboro's elevated rating (47th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 47.4% of Jonesboro outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Jonesboro's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 30,404 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Jonesboro. The exposure-zones guide covers what Jonesboro's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.