Glenn Springs, SC
Glenn Springs, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Glenn Springs at the 63rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 195 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 Glenn Springs at the 66th percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
Glenn Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
195 buildings are counted in Glenn Springs, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Glenn Springs compares
Glenn Springs ranks lower within South Carolina (29th percentile statewide) than its 63rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glenn Springs ranks 11,549 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,045 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 336 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Glenn Springs
Glenn Springs's 63rd-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
Glenn Springs's 100% 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 Glenn Springs's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 195 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glenn Springs. The exposure-zones guide covers what Glenn Springs's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.