Sweet Water Village, AZ
Sweet Water Village, AZ's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sweet Water Village's 37 buildings earn a 78th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sweet Water Village's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 80th percentile nationally.
Where Sweet Water Village's buildings actually sit
Of Sweet Water Village's 37 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Sweet Water Village against the rest of the country
Sweet Water Village's 78th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 41st ranking inside Arizona does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 38 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sweet Water Village ranks 6,862 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,222 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 265 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sweet Water Village
Sweet Water Village's high rating (78th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Sweet Water Village's 100% 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
Sweet Water Village's 78th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sweet Water Village, see the exposure-zones guide.