Pleasant Gap, PA
Pleasant Gap, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Pleasant Gap at the 49th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,503 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 Gap at the 47th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pleasant Gap's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Pleasant Gap (74% of 1,503 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 26% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Pleasant Gap ranks
Pleasant Gap's 80th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 49th 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, Pleasant Gap ranks 16,022 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,164 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 393 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
Pleasant Gap's elevated wildfire rating (49th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Pleasant Gap's 74% 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 Gap's 16,022-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 Gap, see the exposure-zones guide.