Keo, AR
Keo wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Keo at the 24th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 226 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Keo's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 24th percentile nationally.
Keo's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Keo's buildings (71.7% of 226) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Keo against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Keo's 24th national percentile and its 11th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Keo ranks 24,035 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,905 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 547 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 24th national percentile, Keo rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 71.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Keo gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Keo's 24,035-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Keo, see the exposure-zones guide.