Pleasantville, NJ
How exposed is Pleasantville to wildfire?
Pleasantville's 5,681 buildings earn a 85th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pleasantville at the 78th national percentile — 7 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
5,681 buildings are counted in Pleasantville, and 58.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 3.5% in Direct exposure or the 38% rated Minimal. At 5,681 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Pleasantville ranks
Pleasantville's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Jersey (89th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (85th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasantville ranks 4,823 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,043 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 78 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Pleasantville's 85th-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 Pleasantville (58.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Pleasantville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasantville's 4,823-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleasantville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.