Red Bank, SC
Red Bank, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Red Bank at the 57th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 6,145 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Red Bank's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 57th percentile nationally.
Red Bank's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 63.3% of Red Bank's 6,145 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 36.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 6,145 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Red Bank ranks
Inside South Carolina, Red Bank sits at just the 13th percentile even though it scores 57th 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, Red Bank ranks 13,532 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,819 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 410 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
Red Bank's elevated wildfire rating (57th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Red Bank
Because 63.3% of Red Bank's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Red Bank's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,145 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Red Bank. The exposure-zones guide covers what Red Bank's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.