Kingstree, SC
Kingstree, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Kingstree's 1,706 buildings earn a 80th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kingstree at the 80th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Kingstree's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 55.5% of Kingstree's 1,706 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 44.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Kingstree against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Kingstree's 80th national percentile and its 83rd 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, Kingstree ranks 6,406 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,403 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 80 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
Kingstree's 80th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 55.5% of Kingstree's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kingstree's 6,406-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kingstree, see the exposure-zones guide.