Little Mountain, SC
How exposed is Little Mountain to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Little Mountain lands at the 68th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 226 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Little Mountain at the 70th percentile, close to its 68th-percentile risk score.
Where Little Mountain's buildings actually sit
Of Little Mountain's 226 counted buildings, 77.9% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Little Mountain ranks
Little Mountain's 68th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 47th ranking inside South Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 21 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Little Mountain ranks 10,254 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,931 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 255 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Little Mountain
At the 68th percentile nationally, Little Mountain carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Little Mountain (77.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Little Mountain's 10,254-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Little Mountain, see the exposure-zones guide.