Taylors, SC
Taylors, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Taylors sits at the 56th 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 8,853 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Taylors's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 60th percentile nationally.
Where Taylors's buildings actually sit
8,853 buildings are counted in Taylors, and 49.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 44.3% rated Minimal. At 8,853 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Taylors against the rest of the country
Taylors's 56th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 12th ranking inside South Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 44 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Taylors ranks 13,783 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,879 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 419 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Taylors
Taylors's elevated rating (56th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 49.9% of Taylors in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Taylors's 13,783-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Taylors, see the exposure-zones guide.