Wilson, AR
How exposed is Wilson to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wilson at the 21st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 373 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 Wilson at the 19th percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
Wilson's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Wilson's buildings (59.8%) 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.
Wilson against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Wilson's 21st national percentile and its 10th percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wilson ranks 25,044 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,799 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 555 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wilson
Wilson's moderate rating (21st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Wilson's 59.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 373 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wilson. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wilson, see the exposure-zones guide.