Pleasant Grove, AL
Pleasant Grove, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Pleasant Grove at the 69th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 4,264 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pleasant Grove's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 73rd percentile nationally.
Where Pleasant Grove's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 54.7% of Pleasant Grove's 4,264 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 45.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Pleasant Grove ranks
Inside Alabama, Pleasant Grove sits at just the 45th percentile even though it scores 69th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Grove ranks 9,663 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,005 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 330 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Pleasant Grove and the insurance market
Pleasant Grove's 69th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 54.7% of Pleasant Grove'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 4,264 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pleasant Grove. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pleasant Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.