Wade Hampton, SC
Wade Hampton wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wade Hampton at the 51st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 7,996 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wade Hampton at the 55th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Wade Hampton's building exposure, zone by zone
Wade Hampton rates 60.5% Minimal exposure against just 39.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 7,996 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 7,996 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Wade Hampton compares
Wade Hampton ranks lower within South Carolina (4th percentile statewide) than its 51st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wade Hampton ranks 15,487 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,115 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 456 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wade Hampton
Wade Hampton'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.
Hardening a home in Wade Hampton
With 60.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Wade Hampton gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wade Hampton's 15,487-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wade Hampton, see the exposure-zones guide.