Marion, AR
Marion, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Marion's 5,146 buildings earn a 15th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Marion at the 14th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
Marion's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 17.8% of Marion's 5,146 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 82.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 5,146 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Marion compares
Marion's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (7th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (15th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marion ranks 26,904 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,350 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 572 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 15th national percentile, Marion rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Marion
Marion's 82.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Marion's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Marion, see the exposure-zones guide.