Pleasant View, UT
How exposed is Pleasant View to wildfire?
Pleasant View's 3,588 buildings earn a 87th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pleasant View's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 82nd percentile nationally.
Where Pleasant View's buildings actually sit
Most of Pleasant View's buildings (48.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Pleasant View against the rest of the country
Pleasant View's 87th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 47th ranking inside Utah does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 39 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant View ranks 4,172 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,670 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 172 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pleasant View
At the 87th percentile nationally, Pleasant View carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Pleasant View
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Pleasant View (48.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Pleasant View's 87th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pleasant View, see the exposure-zones guide.