Meggett, SC
Meggett, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Meggett's 1,034 buildings earn a 92nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Meggett at the 89th percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
Meggett's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Meggett's 1,034 counted buildings, 97.3% carry Direct exposure and only 0.2% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Meggett ranks
There's little gap between Meggett's 92nd national percentile and its 99th 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, Meggett ranks 2,501 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,699 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 5 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Meggett
Meggett's very high rating (92nd 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 Meggett
Because Direct exposure dominates in Meggett (97.3%), 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 Meggett's 2,501-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Meggett, see the exposure-zones guide.