Rockville, SC
Rockville, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Rockville sits at the 91st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 126 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rockville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 87th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
98.4% of Rockville's 126 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 124 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 1.6% are Minimal.
How Rockville compares
Rockville scores 91st nationally and 98th within South Carolina — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rockville ranks 2,745 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,917 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 9 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Rockville and the insurance market
Rockville's 91st-percentile, very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Rockville (98.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Rockville's 91st-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 Rockville, see the exposure-zones guide.