Riverdale, MI
How exposed is Riverdale to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Riverdale lands at the 18th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 224 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 Riverdale at the 18th percentile, close to its 18th-percentile risk score.
Riverdale's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 64.7% of Riverdale's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 35.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Riverdale ranks
Within Michigan, Riverdale ranks higher (62nd percentile) than it does nationally (18th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riverdale ranks 25,776 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,982 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 288 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 18th national percentile, Riverdale rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Riverdale
With 64.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Riverdale gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Riverdale's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Riverdale's 25,776-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Riverdale's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.