Marianna, AR
Marianna, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Marianna at the 47th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,984 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Marianna at the 47th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Marianna's buildings (75.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Marianna compares
Inside Arkansas, Marianna 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, Marianna ranks 16,788 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,519 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 477 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Marianna and the insurance market
Marianna's elevated wildfire rating (47th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Marianna
Marianna's 75.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Marianna's 47th-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 Marianna, see the exposure-zones guide.