Pleasant Run Farm, OH
Pleasant Run Farm wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Pleasant Run Farm at the 12th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,501 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 Run Farm at the 13th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
Where Pleasant Run Farm's buildings actually sit
1,501 buildings are counted in Pleasant Run Farm, and 44.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 10.8% in Direct exposure or the 44.4% rated Minimal.
Where Pleasant Run Farm ranks
Within Ohio, Pleasant Run Farm ranks higher (36th percentile) than it does nationally (12th) — 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 Run Farm ranks 27,871 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,167 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 817 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
Pleasant Run Farm's low rating (12th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Pleasant Run Farm's 44.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasant Run Farm's 27,871-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pleasant Run Farm, see the exposure-zones guide.