Beech Island, SC
Beech Island, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Beech Island at the 67th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,269 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Beech Island at the 68th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
Where Beech Island's buildings actually sit
Of Beech Island's 1,269 counted buildings, 63% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Beech Island ranks
Inside South Carolina, Beech Island sits at just the 45th 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, Beech Island ranks 10,344 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,253 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 260 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Beech Island
Beech Island's high rating (67th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Beech Island
Because Direct exposure dominates in Beech Island (63%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Beech Island'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 Beech Island, see the exposure-zones guide.