Pleasant Dale, NE
How exposed is Pleasant Dale to wildfire?
USFS scores Pleasant Dale at the 81st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 155 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 Dale at the 74th national percentile — 7 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
USFS classifies 96.8% of Pleasant Dale's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 3.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Pleasant Dale against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Pleasant Dale's 81st national percentile and its 89th percentile inside Nebraska, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Dale ranks 5,896 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,667 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 68 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Pleasant Dale and the insurance market
Pleasant Dale's very high rating (81st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 96.8% of Pleasant Dale outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Pleasant Dale's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 155 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pleasant Dale. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleasant Dale's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.