Jacksonboro, SC
How exposed is Jacksonboro to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Jacksonboro at the 77th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 360 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Jacksonboro at the 77th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Jacksonboro's building exposure, zone by zone
360 buildings are counted in Jacksonboro, and 99.7% 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.
Jacksonboro against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Jacksonboro's 77th national percentile and its 78th 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, Jacksonboro ranks 7,133 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,070 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 106 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jacksonboro
Jacksonboro's high rating (77th 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 Jacksonboro
With 99.7% of Jacksonboro in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Jacksonboro's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jacksonboro's 7,133-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Jacksonboro's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.