Southern Shops, SC
Southern Shops, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Southern Shops at the 51st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,850 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 Southern Shops at the 54th percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
45.1% of Southern Shops's 1,850 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 14.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Southern Shops against the rest of the country
Southern Shops's 51st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 4th ranking inside South Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 47 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Southern Shops ranks 15,520 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,912 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 458 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Southern Shops
Southern Shops's elevated wildfire rating (51st 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
Southern Shops's 45.1% 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
Southern Shops's 51st-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 Southern Shops, see the exposure-zones guide.