Riverton, IL
Riverton, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Riverton's 1,883 buildings earn a 24th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Riverton at the 25th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 9.8% of Riverton's 1,883 buildings carry Direct exposure and 36% carry Indirect; the remaining 54.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Riverton against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Riverton ranks higher (69th percentile) than it does nationally (24th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riverton ranks 24,040 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,811 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 458 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Riverton's moderate rating (24th 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 Riverton
Riverton's 54.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Riverton's 24,040-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Riverton, see the exposure-zones guide.