Baxter Village, SC
Baxter Village wildfire risk explained
Baxter Village's 1,628 buildings earn a 49th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Baxter Village at the 52nd percentile, close to its 49th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Baxter Village (70.3% of 1,628 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 29.7% sit in the Direct zone.
Baxter Village against the rest of the country
Inside South Carolina, Baxter Village sits at just the 2nd percentile even though it scores 49th 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, Baxter Village ranks 16,089 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,659 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 465 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Baxter Village and the insurance market
Baxter Village's elevated rating (49th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 70.3% of Baxter Village's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Baxter Village's 16,089-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Baxter Village, see the exposure-zones guide.