Greer, SC
Greer wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Greer lands at the 59th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 13,387 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Greer's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 62nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Greer's buildings (60.6% of 13,387) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 13,387 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Greer compares
Inside South Carolina, Greer sits at just the 16th percentile even though it scores 59th 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, Greer ranks 12,966 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,134 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 397 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
At the 59th national percentile, Greer rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 60.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Greer gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Greer's 59th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Greer, see the exposure-zones guide.