Manville, SC
Manville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Manville at the 72nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 355 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Manville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 72nd percentile nationally.
Where Manville's buildings actually sit
355 buildings are counted in Manville, and 78.6% 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.
Manville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Manville's 72nd national percentile and its 63rd 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, Manville ranks 8,985 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,202 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 175 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Manville
Manville's 72nd-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 Direct exposure dominates in Manville (78.6%), 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 355 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Manville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Manville, see the exposure-zones guide.