Reevesville, SC
Reevesville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Reevesville at the 67th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 193 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 Reevesville at the 66th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
Where Reevesville's buildings actually sit
86% of Reevesville's 193 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 166 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 14% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Reevesville ranks
Reevesville's 67th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 43rd ranking inside South Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Reevesville ranks 10,477 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,135 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 274 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Reevesville
Reevesville's 67th-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Reevesville's 86% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 193 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Reevesville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Reevesville, see the exposure-zones guide.