Gantt, SC
How exposed is Gantt to wildfire?
Gantt sits at the 53rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 6,628 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Gantt at the 56th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Gantt's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Gantt's 6,628 counted buildings, 40.9% carry Direct exposure and only 21% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. At 6,628 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Gantt against the rest of the country
Inside South Carolina, Gantt sits at just the 6th 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, Gantt ranks 14,982 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,612 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 447 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
Gantt's elevated wildfire rating (53rd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Gantt (40.9%), 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,628 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Gantt. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Gantt, see the exposure-zones guide.