Pleasant Hill, NC
Pleasant Hill, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Pleasant Hill at the 42nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 762 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pleasant Hill at the 44th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
97.9% of Pleasant Hill's 762 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 746 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 2.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Pleasant Hill against the rest of the country
Pleasant Hill ranks lower within North Carolina (19th percentile statewide) than its 42nd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Hill ranks 18,441 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,997 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 628 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Pleasant Hill and the insurance market
At the 42nd national percentile, Pleasant Hill rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Pleasant Hill's 97.9% 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 Hill's 18,441-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 Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.