Winnsboro Mills, SC
Winnsboro Mills, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Winnsboro Mills lands at the 69th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 866 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Winnsboro Mills at the 72nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Winnsboro Mills's buildings actually sit
866 buildings are counted in Winnsboro Mills, and 57.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Winnsboro Mills ranks
Winnsboro Mills's risk sits at a similar level relative to South Carolina (56th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (69th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winnsboro Mills ranks 9,653 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,026 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 210 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
At the 69th percentile nationally, Winnsboro Mills carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Winnsboro Mills's 57.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Winnsboro Mills's 9,653-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Winnsboro Mills, see the exposure-zones guide.