Plattsville, CT
How exposed is Plattsville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Plattsville at the 32nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 506 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Plattsville at the 30th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Plattsville's buildings actually sit
506 buildings are counted in Plattsville, and 66.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Plattsville ranks
Plattsville's 50th-percentile standing inside Connecticut outpaces its 32nd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Plattsville ranks 21,546 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,236 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 107 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Plattsville
Plattsville's moderate wildfire rating (32nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Plattsville's 66.2% 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.
Where Plattsville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Plattsville's 21,546-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Plattsville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.