Pleasant View, KY
Pleasant View wildfire risk explained
Pleasant View's 264 buildings earn a 89th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band 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 92nd percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
Pleasant View's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Pleasant View's 264 counted buildings, 50.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Pleasant View ranks
Pleasant View's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kentucky (89th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (89th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant View ranks 3,500 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,702 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 63 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Pleasant View and the insurance market
Pleasant View's 89th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Pleasant View's 50.8% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasant View's 3,500-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pleasant View, see the exposure-zones guide.