West Pleasant View, CO
West Pleasant View, CO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores West Pleasant View at the 84th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,998 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts West Pleasant View at the 83rd percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
West Pleasant View's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of West Pleasant View's buildings (94.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
West Pleasant View against the rest of the country
West Pleasant View's 84th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 63rd ranking inside Colorado does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 21 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Pleasant View ranks 5,133 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,482 by building count (1 is largest). Within Colorado alone, it ranks 175 of 472 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Colorado on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in West Pleasant View
West Pleasant View's 84th-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.
Hardening a home in West Pleasant View
West Pleasant View's 94.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind West Pleasant View's 5,133-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond West Pleasant View, see the exposure-zones guide.