Gray Court, SC
How exposed is Gray Court to wildfire?
USFS scores Gray Court at the 61st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 500 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 Gray Court at the 64th percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Gray Court's 500 counted buildings, 69.4% 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.
Where Gray Court ranks
Inside South Carolina, Gray Court sits at just the 22nd percentile even though it scores 61st 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, Gray Court ranks 12,207 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,367 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 369 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gray Court
Gray Court's 61st-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 69.4% of Gray Court 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 Gray Court's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gray Court's 12,207-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Gray Court's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.