Scranton, AR
Scranton wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Scranton at the 78th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 185 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 Scranton at the 82nd percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
Where Scranton's buildings actually sit
Most of Scranton's buildings (51.4%) 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.
Where Scranton ranks
Scranton's risk sits at a similar level relative to Arkansas (73rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (78th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Scranton ranks 6,985 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,407 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 166 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Scranton and the insurance market
Scranton's 78th-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 Scranton
Because 51.4% of Scranton's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Scranton's 6,985-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Scranton, see the exposure-zones guide.