Riverside (Northumberland), PA
Riverside (Northumberland) wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Riverside (Northumberland) at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,195 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Riverside (Northumberland) at the 32nd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Riverside (Northumberland)'s buildings actually sit
62.4% of Riverside (Northumberland)'s 1,195 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 37.5% Direct and 0.1% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Riverside (Northumberland) ranks
There's little gap between Riverside (Northumberland)'s 34th national percentile and its 46th percentile inside Pennsylvania, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riverside (Northumberland) ranks 20,970 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,679 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 1,074 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Riverside (Northumberland)'s moderate rating (34th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Riverside (Northumberland)
Because 62.4% of Riverside (Northumberland)'s buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Riverside (Northumberland)'s figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Riverside (Northumberland)'s 20,970-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Riverside (Northumberland)'s dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.