Pleasant Mills, IN
Pleasant Mills, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pleasant Mills sits at the 2nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 132 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pleasant Mills's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 2nd percentile nationally.
Pleasant Mills's building exposure, zone by zone
84.1% of Pleasant Mills's 132 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 15.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Pleasant Mills ranks
Pleasant Mills scores 2nd nationally and 13th within Indiana — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Mills ranks 30,947 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,616 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 844 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pleasant Mills
Pleasant Mills's low wildfire rating (2nd 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 Mills
Even with 84.1% of Pleasant Mills 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 Mills's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasant Mills's 30,947-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleasant Mills's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.