Pleasant View Village, IN
Pleasant View Village wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Pleasant View Village at the 22nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 250 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pleasant View Village at the 24th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pleasant View Village's building exposure, zone by zone
58.4% of Pleasant View Village's 250 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 146 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 41.6% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Pleasant View Village ranks
Within Indiana, Pleasant View Village ranks higher (86th percentile) than it does nationally (22nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant View Village ranks 24,578 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,138 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 138 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Pleasant View Village and the insurance market
At the 22nd national percentile, Pleasant View Village 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 Village
With 58.4% of Pleasant View Village in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 250 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pleasant View Village. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pleasant View Village, see the exposure-zones guide.