Perryville, AR
Perryville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Perryville at the 76th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 812 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Perryville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 80th percentile nationally.
Where Perryville's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Perryville (54.2% of 812 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 45.8% sit in the Direct zone.
How Perryville compares
There's little gap between Perryville's 76th national percentile and its 68th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Perryville ranks 7,521 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,532 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 196 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
Perryville's 76th-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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Perryville (54.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Perryville's 76th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Perryville, see the exposure-zones guide.