Oak Grove, SC
Oak Grove, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Oak Grove at the 56th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 6,556 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Oak Grove at the 57th percentile, close to its 56th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Oak Grove rates 70% Minimal exposure against just 26.3% Direct and 3.7% Indirect — of 6,556 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 6,556 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Oak Grove against the rest of the country
Oak Grove's 56th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 10th ranking inside South Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 45 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oak Grove ranks 14,039 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,647 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 426 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Oak Grove and the insurance market
Oak Grove's elevated rating (56th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Oak Grove
Even with 70% of Oak Grove outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Oak Grove's 56th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Oak Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.