Plainfield Village, CT
Plainfield Village wildfire risk explained
Plainfield Village's 928 buildings earn a 24th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Plainfield Village at the 21st national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Plainfield Village's buildings (63.6%) 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.
Plainfield Village against the rest of the country
Plainfield Village scores 24th nationally and 23rd within Connecticut — 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 Village ranks 23,817 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,486 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 165 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Plainfield Village
Plainfield Village's moderate wildfire rating (24th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Plainfield Village (63.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Plainfield Village's 24th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Plainfield Village, see the exposure-zones guide.