Pleasant Plains, NJ
How exposed is Pleasant Plains to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pleasant Plains at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 325 actual buildings. (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 38th percentile nationally.
Where Pleasant Plains's buildings actually sit
325 buildings are counted in Pleasant Plains, and 96% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Pleasant Plains compares
Pleasant Plains's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (38th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (38th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Plains ranks 19,700 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,962 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 434 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pleasant Plains
Pleasant Plains's moderate wildfire rating (38th 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 Plains
Pleasant Plains's 96% 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.
More on how this number was built
Pleasant Plains's 38th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pleasant Plains, see the exposure-zones guide.