Fort Lawn, SC
Fort Lawn, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fort Lawn sits at the 66th 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 488 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fort Lawn's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 68th percentile nationally.
Fort Lawn's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Fort Lawn's 488 counted buildings, 80.9% 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.
Fort Lawn against the rest of the country
Fort Lawn's 66th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 37th ranking inside South Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 28 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fort Lawn ranks 10,880 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,578 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 297 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fort Lawn
Fort Lawn's 66th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 80.9% of Fort Lawn 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.
More on how this number was built
Fort Lawn'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 Fort Lawn, see the exposure-zones guide.