Pleasant View, TN
Pleasant View wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pleasant View at the 35th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,497 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pleasant View at the 37th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 83.9% of Pleasant View's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 16.1% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 2,095 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Pleasant View against the rest of the country
Pleasant View scores 35th nationally and 24th within Tennessee — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant View ranks 20,470 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,301 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 379 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 35th national percentile, Pleasant View 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 View
Pleasant View's 83.9% 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 View's 35th-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 View, see the exposure-zones guide.