Pleasant Valley, CT
Pleasant Valley wildfire risk explained
Pleasant Valley sits at the 35th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 108 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pleasant Valley at the 35th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pleasant Valley's buildings actually sit
90.7% of Pleasant Valley's 108 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 98 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 9.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Pleasant Valley compares
Compare Pleasant Valley's two percentiles: 62nd within Connecticut, only 35th nationally — a gap of 27 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Valley ranks 20,381 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,684 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 81 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Pleasant Valley and the insurance market
At the 35th national percentile, Pleasant Valley rates moderate 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 Valley
Pleasant Valley's 90.7% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 108 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pleasant Valley. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pleasant Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.