Blackville, SC
How exposed is Blackville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Blackville lands at the 69th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,321 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Blackville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 68th percentile nationally.
Where Blackville's buildings actually sit
1,321 buildings are counted in Blackville, and 61.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 38.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Blackville compares
Blackville's risk sits at a similar level relative to South Carolina (56th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (69th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blackville ranks 9,682 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,970 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 211 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Blackville and the insurance market
Blackville's high rating (69th 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 Blackville
Because 61.2% of Blackville'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
Blackville's 69th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Blackville, see the exposure-zones guide.