Hot Spring County, AR Shrink-Swell Risk

What Hot Spring County, AR's soil means for a foundation

Low

USDA's SSURGO data puts Hot Spring County, AR's soil at "Low" shrink-swell potential, an area-weighted linear extensibility of 2.33% across 66.1% of the county's surveyed land. That's as favorable a county-level reading as this dataset produces - standard foundation practice, pending one lot's own geotechnical report.

This is a county figure, not a lot figure

USDA's survey covers the whole of Hot Spring County, AR at once, not any single address. A site-specific soil report, usually $1,000-$5,000, is what an engineer would actually pull before designing a foundation on a lot in Hot Spring County.

Report cost vs. repair cost

With Hot Spring County, AR rating "Low", a geotechnical report is still worthwhile before a build, just less urgent than in a high-risk county. A geotechnical report runs $1,000-$5,000, typically around $2,700. Foundation repair, if a specific lot turns out to differ from the county average, runs $5,000-$15,000.

How Hot Spring County, AR compares

Nationally, Hot Spring County, AR is the 1,703-most-constrained of 3,085 rated counties for shrink-swell soil. Within Arkansas alone it ranks 53 of 75. Hot Spring County, AR is 615 square miles with a population of 33,313.

See how another county compares

Orleans Parish, LA carries this site's most-constrained reading. Towner County, ND and Levy County, FL are worth a look for comparison.

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More of Arkansas

Every county in Arkansas is on this site, including Greene County, AR and Desha County, AR. The full underlying dataset is downloadable directly, one row per county.