Swifton, AR
Swifton, AR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Swifton at the 36th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 504 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Swifton at the 37th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 17.1% of Swifton's 504 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 82.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Swifton compares
Swifton's 36th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 16th ranking inside Arkansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 19 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Swifton ranks 20,285 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,263 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 514 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Swifton
Swifton's moderate wildfire rating (36th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 82.9% of Swifton outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Swifton's 36th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Swifton, see the exposure-zones guide.