Paxville, SC
Paxville, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Paxville lands at the 79th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 151 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Paxville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 78th percentile nationally.
Where Paxville's buildings actually sit
91.4% of Paxville's 151 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 138 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 8.6% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Paxville compares
There's little gap between Paxville's 79th national percentile and its 81st percentile inside South Carolina, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Paxville ranks 6,721 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,859 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 90 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Paxville
Paxville's 79th-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
Paxville's 91.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Paxville's figures come from
Paxville's 79th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Paxville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.