Dunbar, SC
Dunbar, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Dunbar at the 89th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 404 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dunbar's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 90th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Dunbar's 404 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Dunbar ranks
Dunbar's risk sits at a similar level relative to South Carolina (96th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (89th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dunbar ranks 3,443 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,143 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 19 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dunbar
Dunbar's 89th-percentile, very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Dunbar (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Dunbar's 89th-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 Dunbar, see the exposure-zones guide.