Junction City, AR
How exposed is Junction City to wildfire?
Junction City's 428 buildings earn a 48th-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, Junction City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 49th percentile nationally.
Where Junction City's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 77.1% of Junction City's 428 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 22.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Junction City against the rest of the country
Inside Arkansas, Junction City sits at just the 24th percentile even though it scores 48th 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, Junction City ranks 16,440 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,687 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 469 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Junction City and the insurance market
Junction City's elevated rating (48th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Junction City
Because 77.1% of Junction City'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 428 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Junction City. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Junction City, see the exposure-zones guide.