Socastee, SC
How exposed is Socastee to wildfire?
Socastee's 8,329 buildings earn a 70th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Socastee at the 69th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Socastee's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 44.3% of Socastee's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 31.4% Direct and 24.3% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 8,329 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Socastee against the rest of the country
Socastee's risk sits at a similar level relative to South Carolina (60th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (70th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Socastee ranks 9,334 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,000 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 192 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Socastee
At the 70th percentile nationally, Socastee carries the 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
Socastee's 44.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Socastee's 70th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Socastee, see the exposure-zones guide.