Plainfield, PA
Plainfield wildfire risk explained
Plainfield sits at the 23rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 276 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (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 24th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 46.7% of Plainfield's 276 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0.4% carry Indirect; the remaining 52.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Plainfield compares
Plainfield scores 23rd nationally and 26th within Pennsylvania — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Plainfield ranks 24,214 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,337 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,474 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Plainfield's moderate rating (23rd 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
Plainfield's 52.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Plainfield's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Plainfield's 24,214-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.