Pleasant Grove, UT
Pleasant Grove, UT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Pleasant Grove at the 94th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 9,982 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 90th percentile, close to its 94th-percentile risk score.
Pleasant Grove's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Pleasant Grove's buildings (52.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 9,982 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Pleasant Grove ranks
Pleasant Grove's 94th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 75th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 19 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Grove ranks 1,904 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,618 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 84 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pleasant Grove
Pleasant Grove's 94th-percentile, very 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
Pleasant Grove's 52.4% 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.
Where Pleasant Grove's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasant Grove's 1,904-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleasant Grove's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.