Peach Orchard, AR
Peach Orchard wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Peach Orchard at the 37th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 153 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 Peach Orchard at the 38th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
Peach Orchard's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Peach Orchard's buildings (75.2%) 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 Peach Orchard compares
Inside Arkansas, Peach Orchard sits at just the 17th percentile even though it scores 37th 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, Peach Orchard ranks 20,002 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,736 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 510 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Peach Orchard
At the 37th national percentile, Peach Orchard rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Peach Orchard's 75.2% 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 Peach Orchard's figures come from
Peach Orchard's 37th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Peach Orchard's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.