Cordova, SC
Cordova, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cordova's 95 buildings earn a 69th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cordova at the 67th percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
Where Cordova's buildings actually sit
95 buildings are counted in Cordova, and 71.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Cordova compares
Cordova's 69th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 53rd ranking inside South Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 16 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cordova ranks 9,870 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,288 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 221 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Cordova and the insurance market
Cordova's 69th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 71.6% of Cordova 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 95 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cordova. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cordova, see the exposure-zones guide.