Abbeville, SC
Abbeville, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Abbeville lands at the 67th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,827 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Abbeville at the 70th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
Abbeville's building exposure, zone by zone
2,827 buildings are counted in Abbeville, and 55.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Abbeville against the rest of the country
Inside South Carolina, Abbeville sits at just the 44th percentile even though it scores 67th 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, Abbeville ranks 10,438 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,705 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 268 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Abbeville and the insurance market
Abbeville's 67th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Abbeville
Abbeville's 55.5% 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
Abbeville's 67th-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 Abbeville, see the exposure-zones guide.