Pleasureville, KY
Pleasureville wildfire risk explained
Pleasureville's 526 buildings earn a 15th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pleasureville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 17th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 73% of Pleasureville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 27% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 384 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Pleasureville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Pleasureville's 15th national percentile and its 24th percentile inside Kentucky, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasureville ranks 26,789 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,923 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kentucky alone, it ranks 420 of 552 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kentucky on its state page.
Pleasureville and the insurance market
Pleasureville's low rating (15th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Pleasureville's 73% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Pleasureville's figures come from
Pleasureville's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleasureville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.