Mill Plain, CT
Mill Plain wildfire risk explained
Mill Plain's 731 buildings earn a 22nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mill Plain's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 22nd percentile nationally.
Mill Plain's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 90.3% of Mill Plain's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Mill Plain compares
Mill Plain's risk sits at a similar level relative to Connecticut (16th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (22nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mill Plain ranks 24,509 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,317 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 179 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Mill Plain and the insurance market
Mill Plain's moderate rating (22nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Mill Plain
With 90.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mill Plain gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 731 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mill Plain. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mill Plain, see the exposure-zones guide.