Mount Pleasant, OH
Mount Pleasant wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mount Pleasant at the 43rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 254 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mount Pleasant's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 45th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
254 buildings are counted in Mount Pleasant, and 53.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Mount Pleasant ranks
Mount Pleasant's 94th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 43rd 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 ranks 18,068 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,027 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 78 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Mount Pleasant and the insurance market
Mount Pleasant's elevated rating (43rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant's 53.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Mount Pleasant's figures come from
Mount Pleasant's 43rd-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's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.