Star City, AR
How exposed is Star City to wildfire?
Star City's 1,153 buildings earn a 50th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Star City at the 50th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Star City's buildings actually sit
1,153 buildings are counted in Star City, and 60.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 39.6% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Star City against the rest of the country
Inside Arkansas, Star City sits at just the 26th percentile even though it scores 50th 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, Star City ranks 15,715 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,928 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 457 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Star City and the insurance market
At the 50th national percentile, Star City rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 60.4% of Star City'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.
Where Star City's figures come from
Star City's 50th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Star City's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.