Donalds, SC
Donalds, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Donalds at the 66th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 253 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Donalds's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 69th percentile nationally.
Donalds's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 87.8% of Donalds's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 12.3% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 222 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Donalds ranks
Inside South Carolina, Donalds sits at just the 40th percentile even though it scores 66th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Donalds ranks 10,693 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,058 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 283 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Donalds and the insurance market
Donalds's high rating (66th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Donalds's 87.8% 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
Donalds's 66th-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 Donalds, see the exposure-zones guide.