Pleasant Hill, PA
Pleasant Hill, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pleasant Hill at the 15th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 525 actual buildings. (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 Hill at the 16th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
Pleasant Hill's building exposure, zone by zone
Pleasant Hill rates 94.7% Minimal exposure against just 5.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 525 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Pleasant Hill compares
There's little gap between Pleasant Hill's 15th national percentile and its 15th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Hill ranks 26,766 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,949 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,700 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Pleasant Hill and the insurance market
Pleasant Hill's low wildfire rating (15th 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
Even with 94.7% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasant Hill's 26,766-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleasant Hill's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.