Woodruff, SC
Woodruff, SC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Woodruff at the 61st national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,080 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 Woodruff at the 64th percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Where Woodruff's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Woodruff (54.5% of 2,080 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 45.5% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Woodruff ranks
Woodruff ranks lower within South Carolina (22nd percentile statewide) than its 61st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodruff ranks 12,337 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,255 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 374 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Woodruff
Woodruff's 61st-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Woodruff's 54.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,080 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Woodruff. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Woodruff, see the exposure-zones guide.