Bonneau, SC
Bonneau, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Bonneau at the 87th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 324 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 Bonneau at the 88th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
Bonneau's building exposure, zone by zone
89.2% of Bonneau's 324 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 289 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 10.8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Bonneau ranks
Bonneau scores 87th nationally and 94th 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, Bonneau ranks 3,980 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,991 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 28 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bonneau
Bonneau's 87th-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 Bonneau
With 89.2% of Bonneau in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Bonneau's 87th-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 Bonneau, see the exposure-zones guide.