South Carolina Home-Insurance Distress by County

Home-insurance distress across South Carolina is among the most severe in the country, with an average county insurance-distress score of 80/100 — the 2nd-highest of the 52 states and territories DLRadar scores. DLRadar tracks all 46 South Carolina counties for the rising premiums, non-renewals and carrier pullback that turn ordinary owners into motivated sellers, often well before any foreclosure filing appears.

36 of South Carolina's 46 counties carry a severe insurance-distress score of 70 or higher — the markets where coverage is hardest to keep and where carrying cost, not the mortgage, is the trigger that pushes a homeowner to sell.

Statewide, the pressure is driven by an average FEMA hazard score of 93/100 and average NFIP flood-claim stress of 64/100. These are the exposures carriers price against and increasingly decline to renew, and they are why premiums in South Carolina keep climbing faster than incomes.

Over the trailing three years, South Carolina counties recorded 986 NFIP flood claims totaling $27,901,174 paid — the loss history that insurers convert directly into higher premiums and thinner coverage the following renewal cycle.

The sharpest pressure concentrates in Orangeburg County (96/100, #12 nationally) and Bamberg County. The county-by-county breakdown below ranks every South Carolina market by insurance distress, each linking to its full report.

DLRadar scores insurance distress monthly for every U.S. county from FEMA, NFIP and carrier-pressure data, then ties it to parcel-level foreclosure, tax-lien and ownership signals — so in South Carolina you can find the owners whose breaking point is the insurance bill, before they list.