Pleasant Lake, IN
Pleasant Lake, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pleasant Lake's 491 buildings earn a 5th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (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 Lake at the 6th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
Pleasant Lake's building exposure, zone by zone
Pleasant Lake rates 72.5% Minimal exposure against just 27.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 491 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Pleasant Lake ranks
Pleasant Lake's 38th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 5th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Lake ranks 29,813 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,509 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 600 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pleasant Lake
Pleasant Lake's low wildfire rating (5th 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.
Hardening a home in Pleasant Lake
Pleasant Lake's 72.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Pleasant Lake's figures come from
Pleasant Lake's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleasant Lake's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.