Neeses, SC
How exposed is Neeses to wildfire?
USFS scores Neeses at the 68th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 295 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 Neeses at the 67th percentile, close to its 68th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
65.8% of Neeses's 295 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 194 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 34.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Neeses against the rest of the country
Neeses's 68th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 50th ranking inside South Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 18 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Neeses ranks 10,033 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,772 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 236 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
Neeses's high rating (68th 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
With 65.8% of Neeses in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Neeses's 10,033-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Neeses, see the exposure-zones guide.