Graniteville, SC
How exposed is Graniteville to wildfire?
Graniteville sits at the 69th 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 1,386 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Graniteville at the 67th percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 56.3% of Graniteville's 1,386 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 43.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Graniteville against the rest of the country
Inside South Carolina, Graniteville sits at just the 52nd percentile even though it scores 69th 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, Graniteville ranks 9,936 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,689 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 229 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Graniteville and the insurance market
Graniteville's high rating (69th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Graniteville (56.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Graniteville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Graniteville's 9,936-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Graniteville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.