Dentsville, SC
How exposed is Dentsville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Dentsville at the 53rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 4,643 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dentsville at the 55th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Dentsville's building exposure, zone by zone
62.9% of Dentsville's 4,643 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 13.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Dentsville compares
Dentsville ranks lower within South Carolina (6th 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, Dentsville ranks 14,823 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,662 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 443 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dentsville
Dentsville's elevated wildfire rating (53rd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Dentsville
Even with 62.9% of Dentsville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dentsville's 14,823-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Dentsville, see the exposure-zones guide.