Plainfield, NH
How exposed is Plainfield to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Plainfield lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 135 buildings, not the land around them. (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 17th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
68.2% of Plainfield's 135 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 92 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 31.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Plainfield ranks
Compare Plainfield's two percentiles: 33rd within New Hampshire, only 16th nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Plainfield ranks 26,408 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,505 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Hampshire alone, it ranks 67 of 100 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Hampshire on its state page.
Plainfield and the insurance market
At the 16th national percentile, Plainfield rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Plainfield's 68.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Plainfield's 16th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Plainfield, see the exposure-zones guide.