South Congaree, SC
How exposed is South Congaree to wildfire?
South Congaree sits at the 59th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,577 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts South Congaree at the 59th percentile, close to its 59th-percentile risk score.
South Congaree's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of South Congaree's buildings (58.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
South Congaree against the rest of the country
Inside South Carolina, South Congaree sits at just the 16th percentile even though it scores 59th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Congaree ranks 12,998 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,851 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 400 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in South Congaree
South Congaree's elevated wildfire rating (59th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 58.5% of South Congaree's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind South Congaree's 12,998-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond South Congaree, see the exposure-zones guide.