Pleasant Ridge, KY
How exposed is Pleasant Ridge to wildfire?
Pleasant Ridge's 442 buildings earn a 34th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pleasant Ridge at the 36th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pleasant Ridge's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 99.3% of Pleasant Ridge's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 439 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Pleasant Ridge against the rest of the country
Within Kentucky, Pleasant Ridge ranks higher (63rd percentile) than it does nationally (34th) — 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 Ridge ranks 20,893 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,418 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 208 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pleasant Ridge
Pleasant Ridge's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Pleasant Ridge's 99.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
Pleasant Ridge's 34th-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 Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.