Wooster, AR
How exposed is Wooster to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Wooster lands at the 80th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 535 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wooster at the 85th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Wooster: 93.3% of its 535 buildings, versus 6.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Wooster ranks
Wooster scores 80th nationally and 82nd within Arkansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wooster ranks 6,199 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,793 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 112 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wooster
At the 80th percentile nationally, Wooster carries the very 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 Wooster
Wooster's 93.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wooster's 6,199-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wooster, see the exposure-zones guide.