Moncks Corner, SC
Moncks Corner wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Moncks Corner at the 82nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 5,160 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Moncks Corner's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 83rd percentile nationally.
Where Moncks Corner's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 61.8% of Moncks Corner's 5,160 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 38.1% Direct and 0.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 5,160 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Moncks Corner against the rest of the country
Moncks Corner's risk sits at a similar level relative to South Carolina (90th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (82nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Moncks Corner ranks 5,560 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,340 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 50 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Moncks Corner and the insurance market
Moncks Corner's very high rating (82nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Moncks Corner's 61.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Moncks Corner's 5,560-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Moncks Corner, see the exposure-zones guide.