Promised Land, SC
Promised Land wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Promised Land at the 70th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 253 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Promised Land at the 72nd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Promised Land's building exposure, zone by zone
253 buildings are counted in Promised Land, and 79.8% 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 Promised Land ranks
There's little gap between Promised Land's 70th national percentile and its 58th 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, Promised Land ranks 9,530 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,059 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 202 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Promised Land and the insurance market
At the 70th percentile nationally, Promised Land carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Promised Land
Promised Land's 79.8% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Promised Land's 9,530-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Promised Land, see the exposure-zones guide.