Five Forks, SC
Five Forks, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Five Forks at the 53rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 6,231 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Five Forks at the 57th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
38.6% of Five Forks's 6,231 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 2,405 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 24.4% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 37% are Minimal. At 6,231 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Five Forks against the rest of the country
Inside South Carolina, Five Forks sits at just the 7th percentile even though it scores 53rd 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, Five Forks ranks 14,793 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,786 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 440 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Five Forks and the insurance market
Five Forks's elevated rating (53rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 38.6% of Five Forks in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Five Forks's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,231 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Five Forks. The exposure-zones guide covers what Five Forks's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.