McCormick, SC
McCormick, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores McCormick at the 71st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 928 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts McCormick at the 74th percentile, close to its 71st-percentile risk score.
McCormick's building exposure, zone by zone
Of McCormick's 928 counted buildings, 59.5% 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.
McCormick against the rest of the country
McCormick scores 71st nationally and 63rd within South Carolina — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, McCormick ranks 9,023 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,492 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 177 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
McCormick's 71st-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.
Hardening a home in McCormick
McCormick's 59.5% 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.
Where McCormick's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind McCormick's 9,023-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what McCormick's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.