Centerville, SC
Centerville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Centerville at the 53rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 3,595 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 Centerville at the 58th percentile, close to its 53rd-percentile risk score.
Centerville's building exposure, zone by zone
53.6% of Centerville's 3,595 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,927 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 44.5% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 1.9% are Minimal.
How Centerville compares
Centerville ranks lower within South Carolina (8th percentile statewide) than its 53rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Centerville ranks 14,765 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,656 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 438 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Centerville
Centerville's elevated rating (53rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 53.6% of Centerville 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
Centerville's 53rd-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 Centerville, see the exposure-zones guide.