Pinopolis, SC
Pinopolis wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pinopolis at the 83rd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 678 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pinopolis's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 83rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Pinopolis: 83.3% of its 678 buildings, versus 15.5% Indirect and 1.2% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Pinopolis against the rest of the country
Pinopolis scores 83rd nationally and 91st within South Carolina — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pinopolis ranks 5,332 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,891 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 45 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pinopolis
Pinopolis's 83rd-percentile, very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 83.3% of Pinopolis 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
Pinopolis's 83rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pinopolis, see the exposure-zones guide.