Newtown, SC
Newtown, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Newtown's 411 buildings earn a 77th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Newtown at the 78th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Newtown's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 67.9% of Newtown's 411 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 32.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Newtown compares
Newtown's risk sits at a similar level relative to South Carolina (77th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (77th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newtown ranks 7,352 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,020 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 111 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Newtown
Newtown's 77th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 67.9% of Newtown'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 Newtown's 7,352-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Newtown, see the exposure-zones guide.