Hollywood, SC
Hollywood wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hollywood lands at the 89th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 2,791 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hollywood at the 87th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Hollywood's building exposure, zone by zone
2,791 buildings are counted in Hollywood, and 95.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Hollywood compares
Hollywood scores 89th nationally and 97th within South Carolina — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hollywood ranks 3,347 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,779 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 17 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hollywood
Hollywood's very high rating (89th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Hollywood's 95.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Hollywood's 89th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hollywood, see the exposure-zones guide.