La Riviera, CA
How exposed is La Riviera to wildfire?
La Riviera's 3,683 buildings earn a 55th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks La Riviera at the 59th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 2.1% of La Riviera's 3,683 buildings carry Direct exposure and 37.4% carry Indirect; the remaining 60.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How La Riviera compares
La Riviera ranks lower within California (14th percentile statewide) than its 55th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Riviera ranks 14,076 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,548 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,345 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in La Riviera
Because La Riviera is in California, a wildfire-hazard disclosure is legally required before a sale closes here — unusual nationally, since only these two states mandate it. The state's FAIR Plan alone carried 668,609 policies by the end of 2025. Full detail in the disclosure-law guide.
What would actually reduce this score
La Riviera's 60.5% 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 La Riviera's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind La Riviera's 14,076-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what La Riviera's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.