Capitol View, SC
Capitol View, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Capitol View at the 57th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,866 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Capitol View at the 58th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Capitol View's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Capitol View (53.7% of 1,866 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 24% sit in the Direct zone.
How Capitol View compares
Inside South Carolina, Capitol View sits at just the 13th percentile even though it scores 57th 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, Capitol View ranks 13,628 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,861 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 415 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
Capitol View's elevated wildfire rating (57th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Capitol View
Because 53.7% of Capitol View'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 Capitol View's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,866 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Capitol View. The exposure-zones guide covers what Capitol View's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.