Swepsonville, NC
How exposed is Swepsonville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Swepsonville at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,004 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Swepsonville at the 42nd national percentile — 2 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
Of Swepsonville's 1,004 counted buildings, 69.9% 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.
Where Swepsonville ranks
Inside North Carolina, Swepsonville sits at just the 14th percentile even though it scores 39th 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, Swepsonville ranks 19,198 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,905 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 663 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Swepsonville
Swepsonville's moderate rating (39th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 69.9% of Swepsonville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Swepsonville's 39th-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 Swepsonville, see the exposure-zones guide.