Livingston, SC
Livingston, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Livingston at the 69th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 118 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Livingston at the 68th percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
Where Livingston's buildings actually sit
Of Livingston's 118 counted buildings, 67% 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 Livingston ranks
Livingston's 69th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 54th ranking inside South Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 15 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Livingston ranks 9,872 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,273 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 223 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
Livingston's high rating (69th 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 Livingston
Livingston's 67% 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
Livingston's 69th-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 Livingston, see the exposure-zones guide.