Harleyville, SC
Harleyville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Harleyville at the 83rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 451 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 Harleyville at the 83rd percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
Where Harleyville's buildings actually sit
81.8% of Harleyville's 451 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 369 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 18.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Harleyville compares
There's little gap between Harleyville's 83rd national percentile and its 91st 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, Harleyville ranks 5,242 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,265 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 44 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Harleyville
Harleyville's very high rating (83rd 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.
Hardening a home in Harleyville
Harleyville's 81.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Harleyville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Harleyville's 5,242-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Harleyville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.