Slater-Marietta, SC
Slater-Marietta wildfire risk explained
Slater-Marietta sits at the 67th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,413 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Slater-Marietta at the 71st national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Slater-Marietta's building exposure, zone by zone
1,413 buildings are counted in Slater-Marietta, and 73.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Slater-Marietta ranks
Slater-Marietta ranks lower within South Carolina (45th percentile statewide) than its 67th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Slater-Marietta ranks 10,379 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,574 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 264 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Slater-Marietta
Slater-Marietta'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.
What would actually reduce this score
Slater-Marietta's 73.5% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Slater-Marietta's 10,379-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Slater-Marietta, see the exposure-zones guide.