Pleasant Hills, PA
Pleasant Hills, PA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pleasant Hills at the 27th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 3,289 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pleasant Hills at the 29th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pleasant Hills's building exposure, zone by zone
3,289 buildings are counted in Pleasant Hills, and 50.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 11.6% in Direct exposure or the 38% rated Minimal.
How Pleasant Hills compares
There's little gap between Pleasant Hills's 27th national percentile and its 33rd 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 Hills ranks 22,989 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,065 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,345 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 27th national percentile, Pleasant Hills rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Pleasant Hills
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Pleasant Hills (50.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasant Hills's 22,989-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pleasant Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.