Pleasant City, OH
How exposed is Pleasant City to wildfire?
USFS scores Pleasant City at the 40th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 256 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pleasant City at the 42nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
256 buildings are counted in Pleasant City, and 82% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 18% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Pleasant City compares
Within Ohio, Pleasant City ranks higher (87th percentile) than it does nationally (40th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant City ranks 18,946 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,954 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 165 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pleasant City
At the 40th national percentile, Pleasant City rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Pleasant City
Pleasant City's 82% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasant City's 18,946-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pleasant City, see the exposure-zones guide.