Easley, SC
How exposed is Easley to wildfire?
Easley sits at the 62nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 10,078 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Easley at the 65th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Easley's buildings actually sit
59.1% of Easley's 10,078 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 37.3% Direct and 3.5% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 10,078 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Easley ranks
Inside South Carolina, Easley sits at just the 25th percentile even though it scores 62nd 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, Easley ranks 12,009 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,592 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 356 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
Easley's 62nd-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 ember exposure the dominant pattern in Easley (59.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 10,078 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Easley. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Easley, see the exposure-zones guide.