Sellers, SC
Sellers wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sellers at the 80th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 120 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 Sellers at the 81st percentile, close to its 80th-percentile risk score.
Where Sellers's buildings actually sit
Of Sellers's 120 counted buildings, 60% 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.
Sellers against the rest of the country
Sellers's risk sits at a similar level relative to South Carolina (85th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (80th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sellers ranks 6,282 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,169 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 74 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Sellers and the insurance market
Sellers's 80th-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.
Hardening a home in Sellers
Because Direct exposure dominates in Sellers (60%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Sellers's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 120 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sellers. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sellers's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.