Pleasant Garden, NC
How exposed is Pleasant Garden to wildfire?
Pleasant Garden sits at the 55th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,841 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pleasant Garden's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 58th percentile nationally.
Pleasant Garden's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 87.6% of Pleasant Garden's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 12.4% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 2,489 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Pleasant Garden compares
There's little gap between Pleasant Garden's 55th national percentile and its 53rd percentile inside North Carolina, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Garden ranks 14,096 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,676 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 367 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Pleasant Garden and the insurance market
Pleasant Garden's elevated rating (55th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Pleasant Garden's 87.6% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,841 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pleasant Garden. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pleasant Garden, see the exposure-zones guide.