Pleasant View, IN
How exposed is Pleasant View to wildfire?
Pleasant View's 305 buildings earn a 10th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (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 View at the 10th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
Pleasant View's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Pleasant View's buildings (53.4% of 305) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Pleasant View compares
Compare Pleasant View's two percentiles: 57th within Indiana, only 10th nationally — a gap of 47 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant View ranks 28,330 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,493 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 423 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Pleasant View and the insurance market
Pleasant View's low wildfire rating (10th 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
Even with 53.4% of Pleasant View outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasant View's 28,330-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pleasant View, see the exposure-zones guide.