Plainfield, WI
Plainfield wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Plainfield lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 545 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Plainfield at the 32nd percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Plainfield's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 64.6% of Plainfield's 545 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 30.8% Direct and 4.6% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Plainfield ranks
Within Wisconsin, Plainfield ranks higher (77th percentile) than it does nationally (34th) — 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 20,913 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,647 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 184 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Plainfield
At the 34th national percentile, Plainfield rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 64.6% of Plainfield's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Plainfield's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Plainfield's 20,913-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 indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.