Maysville, AR
Maysville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Maysville lands at the 88th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 131 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Maysville at the 90th percentile, close to its 88th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
131 buildings are counted in Maysville, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Maysville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Maysville's 88th national percentile and its 97th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maysville ranks 3,707 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,653 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 20 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Maysville and the insurance market
Maysville's 88th-percentile, very 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Maysville (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Maysville's 88th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Maysville, see the exposure-zones guide.