Springdale, AR
Springdale wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Springdale at the 75th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 28,094 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Springdale at the 77th percentile, close to its 75th-percentile risk score.
Springdale's building exposure, zone by zone
Springdale rates 63.6% Minimal exposure against just 26% Direct and 10.4% Indirect — of 28,094 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 28,094 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Springdale ranks
There's little gap between Springdale's 75th national percentile and its 66th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Springdale ranks 7,809 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 433 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 213 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Springdale and the insurance market
At the 75th percentile nationally, Springdale 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 Springdale
With 63.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Springdale gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Springdale's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Springdale's 7,809-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Springdale's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.