Riverside, CT
Riverside, CT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Riverside sits at the 26th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 5,164 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Riverside's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 26th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Riverside rates 63.4% Minimal exposure against just 36.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 5,164 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 5,164 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Riverside compares
There's little gap between Riverside's 26th national percentile and its 28th percentile inside Connecticut, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riverside ranks 23,406 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,337 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 154 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Riverside's moderate wildfire rating (26th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Riverside's 63.4% 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 Riverside's figures come from
Riverside's 26th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Riverside's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.