East Pleasant View, CO
East Pleasant View, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
East Pleasant View's 150 buildings earn a 70th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Pleasant View at the 68th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where East Pleasant View's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 48% of East Pleasant View's 150 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 7.3% Direct and 44.7% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where East Pleasant View ranks
Inside Colorado, East Pleasant View sits at just the 37th percentile even though it scores 70th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Pleasant View ranks 9,538 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,867 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 298 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East Pleasant View
East Pleasant View's high rating (70th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 48% of East Pleasant View's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where East Pleasant View's figures come from
East Pleasant View's 70th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what East Pleasant View's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.