Hanahan, SC
Hanahan wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hanahan lands at the 82nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 7,285 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hanahan at the 78th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Hanahan's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 44.6% of Hanahan's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 19.7% Direct and 35.7% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 7,285 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Hanahan ranks
There's little gap between Hanahan's 82nd national percentile and its 88th percentile inside South Carolina, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hanahan ranks 5,777 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,348 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 57 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
Hanahan's very high rating (82nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 44.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Hanahan gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Hanahan's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hanahan's 5,777-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hanahan's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.