Plantsville, CT
Plantsville wildfire risk explained
Plantsville's 828 buildings earn a 26th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Plantsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 25th percentile nationally.
Plantsville's building exposure, zone by zone
Plantsville rates 86% Minimal exposure against just 14% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 828 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Plantsville compares
Plantsville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Connecticut (30th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (26th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Plantsville ranks 23,218 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,365 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 150 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Plantsville
Plantsville's moderate rating (26th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 86% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Plantsville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Plantsville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Plantsville's 23,218-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Plantsville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.