Riverside, CA
Riverside, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Riverside's 95,328 buildings earn a 83rd-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 Riverside at the 85th percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
Riverside's building exposure, zone by zone
Riverside rates 56.2% Minimal exposure against just 6.3% Direct and 37.6% Indirect — of 95,328 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 95,328 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Riverside against the rest of the country
Riverside's 83rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 45th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 38 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riverside ranks 5,318 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 70 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 862 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Riverside
Riverside's 83rd-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
Hardening a home in Riverside
Riverside's 56.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Riverside's 83rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Riverside, see the exposure-zones guide.