Pleasant Hill, CA
How exposed is Pleasant Hill to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pleasant Hill lands at the 84th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 12,068 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pleasant Hill's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 85th percentile nationally.
Where Pleasant Hill's buildings actually sit
Pleasant Hill rates 78.5% Minimal exposure against just 8.5% Direct and 13% Indirect — of 12,068 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 12,068 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Pleasant Hill compares
Inside California, Pleasant Hill sits at just the 48th percentile even though it scores 84th 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 Hill ranks 4,972 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,292 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 817 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pleasant Hill
Pleasant Hill sits in California, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. California's FAIR Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, ended 2025 with 668,609 residential policies after adding 21,859 in Q4 alone — the kind of market shift a 84th-percentile score like Pleasant Hill's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Pleasant Hill
Even with 78.5% of Pleasant Hill outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Pleasant Hill's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 12,068 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pleasant Hill. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleasant Hill's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.