Tigerville, SC
Tigerville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tigerville at the 69th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 234 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tigerville at the 72nd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
234 buildings are counted in Tigerville, and 73.1% 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.
Tigerville against the rest of the country
Inside South Carolina, Tigerville sits at just the 54th percentile even though it scores 69th 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, Tigerville ranks 9,751 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,686 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 219 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Tigerville's 69th-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.
Hardening a home in Tigerville
With 73.1% of Tigerville 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
Tigerville's 69th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tigerville, see the exposure-zones guide.