Salado, AR
Salado, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Salado at the 77th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 388 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Salado at the 80th percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
Salado's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Salado: 100% of its 388 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Salado ranks
There's little gap between Salado's 77th national percentile and its 69th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Salado ranks 7,397 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,440 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 190 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Salado
Salado's 77th-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.
Hardening a home in Salado
Because Direct exposure dominates in Salado (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
Salado's 77th-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 Salado, see the exposure-zones guide.