Maumelle, AR
Maumelle wildfire risk explained
Maumelle's 6,904 buildings earn a 63rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Maumelle's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 66th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Maumelle's buildings (83.8%) 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. At 6,904 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Maumelle compares
Maumelle's 63rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 47th ranking inside Arkansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 16 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maumelle ranks 11,712 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,508 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 326 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
Maumelle's 63rd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Maumelle's 83.8% 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.
Where Maumelle's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,904 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Maumelle. The exposure-zones guide covers what Maumelle's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.