Pleasant Hill, IL
How exposed is Pleasant Hill to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pleasant Hill at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 647 actual buildings. (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 13th percentile nationally.
Where Pleasant Hill's buildings actually sit
Only 15.2% of Pleasant Hill's 647 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 84.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Pleasant Hill compares
Compare Pleasant Hill's two percentiles: 50th within Illinois, only 14th nationally — a gap of 37 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Hill ranks 27,253 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,229 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 720 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Pleasant Hill and the insurance market
Pleasant Hill's low wildfire rating (14th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Pleasant Hill's 84.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasant Hill's 27,253-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pleasant Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.