Greenwood, SC
Greenwood wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Greenwood at the 64th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 9,494 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Greenwood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 67th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 34.7% of Greenwood's 9,494 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 33% Direct and 32.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 9,494 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Greenwood against the rest of the country
Inside South Carolina, Greenwood sits at just the 32nd percentile even though it scores 64th 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, Greenwood ranks 11,230 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,717 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 321 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Greenwood and the insurance market
At the 64th percentile nationally, Greenwood carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Greenwood
Greenwood's 34.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 9,494 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Greenwood. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Greenwood, see the exposure-zones guide.