Pimlico, SC
Pimlico wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pimlico at the 88th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 618 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 Pimlico at the 89th percentile, close to its 88th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Pimlico's 618 counted buildings, 68% carry Direct exposure and only 3.4% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Pimlico against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Pimlico's 88th national percentile and its 95th 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, Pimlico ranks 3,698 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,597 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 27 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
Pimlico's very high rating (88th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Pimlico (68%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pimlico's 3,698-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pimlico, see the exposure-zones guide.