Sherwood, AR
How exposed is Sherwood to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sherwood at the 63rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 14,729 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 Sherwood at the 67th percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 51% of Sherwood's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 18.9% Direct and 30.2% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 14,729 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Sherwood ranks
Inside Arkansas, Sherwood sits at just the 48th percentile even though it scores 63rd 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, Sherwood ranks 11,588 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,007 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 323 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sherwood
At the 63rd percentile nationally, Sherwood carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Sherwood
Even with 51% of Sherwood outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sherwood's 11,588-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sherwood, see the exposure-zones guide.