Mullins, SC
How exposed is Mullins to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mullins lands at the 69th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,407 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mullins at the 67th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mullins's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 72.3% of Mullins's 2,407 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 27.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Mullins compares
Mullins's 69th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 53rd ranking inside South Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 16 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mullins ranks 9,907 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,500 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 226 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
Mullins's high rating (69th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 72.3% of Mullins's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mullins's 9,907-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mullins, see the exposure-zones guide.