Pleasant Grove, OH
How exposed is Pleasant Grove to wildfire?
USFS scores Pleasant Grove at the 32nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,088 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pleasant Grove at the 35th percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Pleasant Grove: 74.9% of its 1,088 buildings, versus 25.1% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Pleasant Grove against the rest of the country
Compare Pleasant Grove's two percentiles: 71st within Ohio, only 32nd nationally — a gap of 39 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Grove ranks 21,312 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,353 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 364 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Pleasant Grove and the insurance market
Pleasant Grove's moderate rating (32nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Pleasant Grove
Pleasant Grove's 74.9% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasant Grove's 21,312-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pleasant Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.