Powdersville, SC
Powdersville, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Powdersville lands at the 59th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 4,376 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Powdersville at the 63rd percentile, close to its 59th-percentile risk score.
Powdersville's building exposure, zone by zone
4,376 buildings are counted in Powdersville, and 77.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Powdersville ranks
Inside South Carolina, Powdersville sits at just the 17th percentile even though it scores 59th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Powdersville ranks 12,905 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,899 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 396 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
At the 59th national percentile, Powdersville rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Powdersville
Powdersville's 77.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
Powdersville's 59th-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 Powdersville, see the exposure-zones guide.