Welcome, SC
How exposed is Welcome to wildfire?
Welcome's 3,531 buildings earn a 56th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Welcome's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 60th percentile nationally.
Welcome's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Welcome's buildings (58.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Welcome ranks
Inside South Carolina, Welcome sits at just the 11th percentile even though it scores 56th 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, Welcome ranks 13,849 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,738 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 422 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
Welcome's elevated wildfire rating (56th 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 Welcome
Because 58.6% of Welcome's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,531 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Welcome. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Welcome, see the exposure-zones guide.