Mauldin, SC
Mauldin wildfire risk explained
Mauldin sits at the 51st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 9,304 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mauldin at the 54th percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
Where Mauldin's buildings actually sit
48.7% of Mauldin's 9,304 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 26% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 9,304 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Mauldin compares
Inside South Carolina, Mauldin sits at just the 3rd percentile even though it scores 51st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mauldin ranks 15,581 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,770 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 460 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mauldin
Mauldin's elevated wildfire rating (51st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 48.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mauldin gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Mauldin's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mauldin's 15,581-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mauldin's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.