Pleasantville (Venango), PA
Pleasantville (Venango) wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pleasantville (Venango) lands at the 29th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 573 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pleasantville (Venango) at the 29th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pleasantville (Venango)'s buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Pleasantville (Venango): 86% of its 573 buildings, versus 14% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Pleasantville (Venango) compares
There's little gap between Pleasantville (Venango)'s 29th national percentile and its 35th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasantville (Venango) ranks 22,513 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,199 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,292 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Pleasantville (Venango) and the insurance market
Pleasantville (Venango)'s moderate wildfire rating (29th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 86% of Pleasantville (Venango) 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.
Where Pleasantville (Venango)'s figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasantville (Venango)'s 22,513-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleasantville (Venango)'s dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.