Arthurtown, SC
Arthurtown wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Arthurtown at the 50th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 933 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Arthurtown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 51st percentile nationally.
Arthurtown's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 3.9% of Arthurtown's 933 buildings carry Direct exposure and 18.5% carry Indirect; the remaining 77.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Arthurtown compares
Arthurtown's 50th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 3rd ranking inside South Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 47 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Arthurtown ranks 15,740 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,444 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 461 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Arthurtown
Arthurtown's elevated rating (50th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Arthurtown's 77.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Arthurtown's 50th-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 Arthurtown, see the exposure-zones guide.