Riverside, WA
How exposed is Riverside to wildfire?
USFS scores Riverside at the 98th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 237 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Riverside at the 99th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Riverside's buildings actually sit
237 buildings are counted in Riverside, and 78.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 21.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Riverside compares
There's little gap between Riverside's 98th national percentile and its 95th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riverside ranks 677 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,579 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 31 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Riverside and the insurance market
At the 98th percentile nationally, Riverside carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 78.9% of Riverside'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Riverside's 677-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Riverside, see the exposure-zones guide.