Blenheim, SC
Blenheim wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Blenheim at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 118 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Blenheim at the 82nd percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
Blenheim's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Blenheim: 85.6% of its 118 buildings, versus 14.4% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Blenheim ranks
Blenheim scores 81st nationally and 86th within South Carolina — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blenheim ranks 6,121 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,272 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 67 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Blenheim's very high rating (81st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Blenheim's 85.6% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blenheim's 6,121-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Blenheim, see the exposure-zones guide.