Riverview Colony, MT
Riverview Colony wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Riverview Colony lands at the 45th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 48 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Riverview Colony at the 41st national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Riverview Colony's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Riverview Colony (89.6% of 48 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 10.4% sit in the Direct zone.
Riverview Colony against the rest of the country
Riverview Colony's 45th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 9th ranking inside Montana does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 36 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riverview Colony ranks 17,370 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,977 by building count (1 is largest). Within Montana alone, it ranks 431 of 475 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Montana on its state page.
Riverview Colony and the insurance market
Riverview Colony's elevated wildfire rating (45th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Riverview Colony
Because 89.6% of Riverview Colony'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
Riverview Colony's 45th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Riverview Colony, see the exposure-zones guide.