Wisacky, SC
How exposed is Wisacky to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wisacky at the 72nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 156 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wisacky at the 72nd percentile, close to its 72nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
80.8% of Wisacky's 156 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 126 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 19.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Wisacky against the rest of the country
Wisacky's risk sits at a similar level relative to South Carolina (64th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (72nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wisacky ranks 8,893 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,636 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 170 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
Wisacky's high rating (72nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Wisacky's 80.8% 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 Wisacky's 8,893-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wisacky, see the exposure-zones guide.