Knoxville, AR
Knoxville, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Knoxville at the 69th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 578 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Knoxville at the 73rd percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
Where Knoxville's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 86% of Knoxville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 14% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 497 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Knoxville compares
There's little gap between Knoxville's 69th national percentile and its 54th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Knoxville ranks 9,789 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,123 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 282 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Knoxville and the insurance market
Knoxville's 69th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 86% of Knoxville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Knoxville's 9,789-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Knoxville, see the exposure-zones guide.