Clarks Hill, SC
How exposed is Clarks Hill to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Clarks Hill at the 75th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 200 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Clarks Hill at the 77th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Clarks Hill's buildings actually sit
100% of Clarks Hill's 200 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 200 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Clarks Hill against the rest of the country
Clarks Hill's risk sits at a similar level relative to South Carolina (73rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (75th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clarks Hill ranks 7,923 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,864 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 126 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Clarks Hill
Clarks Hill's high rating (75th 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 Clarks Hill
Clarks Hill's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Clarks Hill's 7,923-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Clarks Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.