Pleasant Hills, OH
How exposed is Pleasant Hills to wildfire?
USFS scores Pleasant Hills at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 331 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pleasant Hills's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
51.1% of Pleasant Hills's 331 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 48.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Pleasant Hills ranks
Within Ohio, Pleasant Hills ranks higher (41st percentile) than it does nationally (14th) — 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 Hills ranks 27,209 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,803 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 755 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pleasant Hills
Pleasant Hills's low rating (14th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 51.1% of Pleasant Hills 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.
More on how this number was built
Pleasant Hills's 14th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pleasant Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.