Eastover, SC
Eastover wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Eastover at the 73rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 388 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Eastover at the 72nd percentile, close to its 73rd-percentile risk score.
Eastover's building exposure, zone by zone
61.1% of Eastover's 388 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 237 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 38.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Eastover compares
There's little gap between Eastover's 73rd national percentile and its 67th percentile inside South Carolina, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eastover ranks 8,644 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,455 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 158 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
Eastover's 73rd-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.
Hardening a home in Eastover
Eastover's 61.1% 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.
Where Eastover's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Eastover's 8,644-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Eastover's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.