# Counties in South Carolina by social vulnerability score (FEMA National Risk Index), 2025

All 46 values come from Federal Emergency Management Agency for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `nri_social_vulnerability_score`
- Unit: index
- Definition: Social vulnerability of a US county as used in FEMA's National Risk Index, from 0 to 100: the county's national percentile rank among all counties, based on the Census Bureau's Community Resilience Estimates, which count residents with social and economic risk factors such as low income, age, disability and household conditions. Higher means more vulnerable.
- Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Risk Index Counties, Social Vulnerability Score (SOVI_SCORE) (https://fema.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=39485e8035d446a5bff03259508ae355)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/fema
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), National Risk Index Dataset: National Risk Index Counties, Social Vulnerability Score (SOVI_SCORE). https://fema.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=39485e8035d446a5bff03259508ae355. Retrieved 2026-10-12. This product uses the FEMA National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/social-vulnerability-score/south-carolina-counties

| Rank | Place | index |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Barnwell County | 98.9 |
| 2 | Marlboro County | 97.8 |
| 3 | McCormick County | 95.7 |
| 4 | Union County | 95.6 |
| 5 | Orangeburg County | 94.8 |
| 6 | Hampton County | 94.6 |
| 7 | Bamberg County | 94.1 |
| 8 | Marion County | 93.8 |
| 9 | Clarendon County | 90.9 |
| 10 | Williamsburg County | 90.6 |
| 11 | Fairfield County | 90.1 |
| 12 | Colleton County | 90 |
| 13 | Allendale County | 89.3 |
| 14 | Dillon County | 87.6 |
| 15 | Saluda County | 87.5 |
| 16 | Lee County | 86.2 |
| 17 | Chesterfield County | 83.3 |
| 18 | Darlington County | 82.7 |
| 19 | Georgetown County | 81.8 |
| 20 | Abbeville County | 80.5 |
| 21 | Jasper County | 76.8 |
| 22 | Laurens County | 73.1 |
| 23 | Newberry County | 73.1 |
| 24 | Calhoun County | 70.9 |
| 25 | Florence County | 70.8 |
| 26 | Oconee County | 70.5 |
| 27 | Chester County | 68.7 |
| 28 | Horry County | 65.4 |
| 29 | Cherokee County | 63 |
| 30 | Greenwood County | 58.5 |
| 31 | Edgefield County | 54.7 |
| 31 | Sumter County | 54.7 |
| 33 | Aiken County | 50.8 |
| 34 | Kershaw County | 50.6 |
| 35 | Beaufort County | 44.6 |
| 36 | Lancaster County | 42.1 |
| 37 | Pickens County | 41 |
| 38 | Spartanburg County | 39.7 |
| 39 | Anderson County | 37.3 |
| 40 | Richland County | 33.8 |
| 41 | Charleston County | 22.4 |
| 41 | Lexington County | 22.4 |
| 43 | Greenville County | 21.9 |
| 44 | Dorchester County | 16 |
| 45 | Berkeley County | 14.8 |
| 46 | York County | 12.2 |