Pleasant Plain, OH
Pleasant Plain, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Pleasant Plain at the 19th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 113 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (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 Plain at the 20th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Pleasant Plain's 113 counted buildings, 59.3% carry Direct exposure and only 7.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Pleasant Plain against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Pleasant Plain ranks higher (48th percentile) than it does nationally (19th) — 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 Plain ranks 25,697 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,514 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 652 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 19th national percentile, Pleasant Plain rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Pleasant Plain's 59.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Pleasant Plain's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasant Plain's 25,697-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleasant Plain's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.