Coosawhatchie, SC
How exposed is Coosawhatchie to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Coosawhatchie at the 86th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 63 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Coosawhatchie's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 83rd percentile nationally.
Coosawhatchie's building exposure, zone by zone
92.1% of Coosawhatchie's 63 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 58 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 7.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Coosawhatchie compares
Coosawhatchie's risk sits at a similar level relative to South Carolina (93rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (86th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Coosawhatchie ranks 4,547 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,557 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 35 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
Coosawhatchie's very high rating (86th 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 Coosawhatchie
With 92.1% of Coosawhatchie 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Coosawhatchie's 4,547-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Coosawhatchie, see the exposure-zones guide.