Plainfield, IN
Plainfield, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Plainfield at the 15th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 11,917 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Plainfield's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 16th percentile nationally.
Plainfield's building exposure, zone by zone
91.9% of Plainfield's 11,917 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 8.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 11,917 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Plainfield against the rest of the country
Within Indiana, Plainfield ranks higher (68th percentile) than it does nationally (15th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Plainfield ranks 26,879 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,312 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 312 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Plainfield
Plainfield'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
With 91.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Plainfield gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Plainfield's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Plainfield's 26,879-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Plainfield's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.