Timmonsville, SC
How exposed is Timmonsville to wildfire?
Timmonsville sits at the 78th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,269 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Timmonsville at the 78th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Timmonsville's buildings actually sit
Of Timmonsville's 1,269 counted buildings, 50.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Timmonsville against the rest of the country
Timmonsville's risk sits at a similar level relative to South Carolina (80th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (78th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Timmonsville ranks 6,947 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,254 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 99 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Timmonsville
Timmonsville's 78th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 50.1% of Timmonsville 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
Timmonsville's 78th-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 Timmonsville, see the exposure-zones guide.