Riverdale Park, CA
Riverdale Park, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Riverdale Park's 599 buildings earn a 85th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (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 Park at the 85th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Where Riverdale Park's buildings actually sit
Of Riverdale Park's 599 counted buildings, 65.1% carry Direct exposure and only 34.9% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Riverdale Park compares
Riverdale Park's 85th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 49th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 35 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riverdale Park ranks 4,813 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,845 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 798 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Riverdale Park
Because Riverdale Park 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Riverdale Park's 65.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Riverdale Park's 4,813-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Riverdale Park, see the exposure-zones guide.