Riverside, WY
How exposed is Riverside to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Riverside at the 83rd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 86 actual buildings. (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 82nd percentile nationally.
Riverside's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Riverside's 86 counted buildings, 61.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Riverside ranks
Riverside's 83rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 62nd ranking inside Wyoming does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 21 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riverside ranks 5,280 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,675 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 74 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Riverside and the insurance market
Riverside's 83rd-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 61.6% of Riverside in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Riverside's figures come from
Riverside's 83rd-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 direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.