Riverside, OR
Riverside, OR's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Riverside at the 89th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 124 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (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 91st percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
Riverside's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Riverside's buildings (75.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Riverside ranks
Inside Oregon, Riverside sits at just the 73rd percentile even though it scores 89th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riverside ranks 3,570 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,001 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 115 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Riverside and the insurance market
Because Riverside is in Oregon, a wildfire-hazard disclosure is legally required before a sale closes here — unusual nationally, since only these two states mandate it. Full detail in the disclosure-law guide.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Riverside's 75.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 124 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Riverside. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Riverside, see the exposure-zones guide.