Riverside, OH
How exposed is Riverside to wildfire?
Riverside's 11,406 buildings earn a 13th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Riverside at the 16th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Riverside's building exposure, zone by zone
85.8% of Riverside's 11,406 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 12.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 11,406 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
Compare Riverside's two percentiles: 39th within Ohio, only 13th nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riverside ranks 27,368 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,382 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 769 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Riverside and the insurance market
Riverside's low rating (13th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 85.8% of Riverside outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Riverside's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 11,406 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Riverside. The exposure-zones guide covers what Riverside's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.