Riverton, UT
Riverton wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Riverton lands at the 82nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 14,157 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Riverton at the 76th percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Riverton rates 91.1% Minimal exposure against just 6.5% Direct and 2.4% Indirect — of 14,157 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 14,157 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Riverton compares
Riverton ranks lower within Utah (42nd percentile statewide) than its 82nd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riverton ranks 5,784 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,063 by building count (1 is largest). Within Utah alone, it ranks 191 of 326 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Utah on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Riverton's very high rating (82nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 91.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Riverton gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Riverton's 82nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Riverton, see the exposure-zones guide.