Powhatan, AR
How exposed is Powhatan to wildfire?
Powhatan sits at the 67th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 91 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Powhatan at the 70th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
Powhatan's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 81.3% of Powhatan's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 18.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 74 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Powhatan against the rest of the country
Powhatan's 67th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 51st 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, Powhatan ranks 10,519 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,436 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 303 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Powhatan
Powhatan's high rating (67th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Powhatan
Powhatan's 81.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Powhatan's 10,519-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Powhatan, see the exposure-zones guide.