Mount Pleasant Mills, PA
Mount Pleasant Mills wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mount Pleasant Mills at the 47th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 355 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Pleasant Mills at the 45th national percentile — 2 points below 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 Mount Pleasant Mills's buildings (54.9%) 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.
Mount Pleasant Mills against the rest of the country
Mount Pleasant Mills's 76th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 47th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Pleasant Mills ranks 16,776 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,199 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 489 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Mount Pleasant Mills and the insurance market
Mount Pleasant Mills's elevated rating (47th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 54.9% of Mount Pleasant Mills'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 Mount Pleasant Mills's figures come from
Mount Pleasant Mills's 47th-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 Mount Pleasant Mills's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.