Ridgeville, SC
Ridgeville, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ridgeville at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 398 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 Ridgeville at the 82nd percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Ridgeville's 398 counted buildings, 83.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Ridgeville compares
There's little gap between Ridgeville's 81st national percentile and its 87th 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, Ridgeville ranks 6,028 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,254 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 62 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ridgeville
At the 81st percentile nationally, Ridgeville carries the very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Ridgeville's 83.4% 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.
Where Ridgeville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ridgeville's 6,028-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ridgeville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.