Woodfield, SC
Woodfield wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Woodfield at the 57th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 3,324 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Woodfield at the 58th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Woodfield's buildings (71.7%) 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.
How Woodfield compares
Woodfield ranks lower within South Carolina (13th percentile statewide) than its 57th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodfield ranks 13,599 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,014 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 414 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Woodfield and the insurance market
Woodfield's elevated wildfire rating (57th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Woodfield (71.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Woodfield's 13,599-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Woodfield, see the exposure-zones guide.