Nashville, AR
Nashville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Nashville at the 58th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,360 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Nashville at the 61st percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
Nashville's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Nashville (75.5% of 2,360 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 24.5% sit in the Direct zone.
Nashville against the rest of the country
Nashville ranks lower within Arkansas (39th percentile statewide) than its 58th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nashville ranks 13,292 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,586 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 379 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nashville
Nashville's elevated wildfire rating (58th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Nashville'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nashville's 13,292-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Nashville, see the exposure-zones guide.