Awendaw, SC
Awendaw, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Awendaw's 973 buildings earn a 95th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Awendaw's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 93rd percentile nationally.
Where Awendaw's buildings actually sit
99.7% of Awendaw's 973 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 970 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Awendaw ranks
There's little gap between Awendaw's 95th national percentile and its 100th percentile inside South Carolina, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Awendaw ranks 1,680 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,126 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 3 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Awendaw
Awendaw's 95th-percentile, very 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 Awendaw
Awendaw's 99.7% 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
Awendaw's 95th-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 Awendaw, see the exposure-zones guide.