Pleasanton, TX
Pleasanton wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pleasanton lands at the 82nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 5,030 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pleasanton at the 83rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pleasanton's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 72.8% of Pleasanton's 5,030 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 27.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 5,030 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Pleasanton compares
Pleasanton's 82nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 67th ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 15 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasanton ranks 5,563 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,412 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 588 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Pleasanton and the insurance market
Pleasanton's 82nd-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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Pleasanton (72.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Pleasanton's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasanton's 5,563-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleasanton's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.