Pleasant Plains, IL
Pleasant Plains wildfire risk explained
Pleasant Plains's 508 buildings earn a 13th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pleasant Plains's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
Where Pleasant Plains's buildings actually sit
Most of Pleasant Plains's buildings (91.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Pleasant Plains against the rest of the country
Pleasant Plains's 48th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 13th 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 Plains ranks 27,536 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,207 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 755 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Pleasant Plains and the insurance market
At the 13th national percentile, Pleasant Plains rates low 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 Plains
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Pleasant Plains (91.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Pleasant Plains's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasant Plains's 27,536-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleasant Plains's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.