Burnettown, SC
Burnettown, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Burnettown at the 65th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,005 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Burnettown at the 64th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Burnettown's buildings actually sit
Most of Burnettown's buildings (55.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Burnettown ranks
Burnettown ranks lower within South Carolina (34th percentile statewide) than its 65th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Burnettown ranks 11,104 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,463 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 312 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Burnettown
Burnettown's 65th-percentile, 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 55.4% of Burnettown'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.
Where Burnettown's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,005 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Burnettown. The exposure-zones guide covers what Burnettown's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.