Mount Pleasant, PA
How exposed is Mount Pleasant to wildfire?
USFS scores Mount Pleasant at the 27th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,115 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mount Pleasant at the 29th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
76.1% of Mount Pleasant's 2,115 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 3% Direct and 20.9% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Mount Pleasant compares
Mount Pleasant's risk sits at a similar level relative to Pennsylvania (33rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (27th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Pleasant ranks 22,957 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,152 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,340 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Mount Pleasant's moderate wildfire rating (27th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Mount Pleasant
Because 76.1% of Mount Pleasant'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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,115 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mount Pleasant. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mount Pleasant, see the exposure-zones guide.