Pleasant Hill, TX
Pleasant Hill, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pleasant Hill at the 77th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 282 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 78th percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Pleasant Hill's 282 counted buildings, 87.9% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Pleasant Hill ranks
Pleasant Hill's 77th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 52nd ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 25 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Hill ranks 7,262 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,140 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 857 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Pleasant Hill and the insurance market
Pleasant Hill's high rating (77th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With 87.9% of Pleasant Hill in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasant Hill's 7,262-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.