Pleasant Hill, LA
Pleasant Hill, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pleasant Hill's 411 buildings earn a 63rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pleasant Hill at the 63rd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pleasant Hill's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Pleasant Hill (52.1% of 411 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 47.9% sit in the Direct zone.
Pleasant Hill against the rest of the country
Within Louisiana, Pleasant Hill ranks higher (79th percentile) than it does nationally (63rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Hill ranks 11,688 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,009 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 103 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Pleasant Hill and the insurance market
Pleasant Hill's 63rd-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.
Hardening a home in Pleasant Hill
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Pleasant Hill (52.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Pleasant Hill's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 411 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pleasant Hill. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleasant Hill's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.