Carolina Forest, SC
Carolina Forest, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Carolina Forest lands at the 82nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 6,925 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Carolina Forest at the 76th percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
6,925 buildings are counted in Carolina Forest, and 74.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 25.5% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal. At 6,925 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Carolina Forest compares
Carolina Forest scores 82nd nationally and 89th 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, Carolina Forest ranks 5,621 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,503 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 53 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
Carolina Forest's very high rating (82nd 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 Carolina Forest
Because 74.5% of Carolina Forest'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 Carolina Forest's figures come from
Carolina Forest's 82nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Carolina Forest's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.