Riverview, FL
Riverview wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Riverview at the 90th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 37,032 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Riverview at the 91st 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
Indirect exposure is dominant in Riverview (36.3% of 37,032 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 31.8% sit in the Direct zone. At 37,032 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Riverview compares
There's little gap between Riverview's 90th national percentile and its 81st percentile inside Florida, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riverview ranks 3,213 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 280 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 187 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Riverview
Riverview's very high rating (90th 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
Because 36.3% of Riverview'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.
Where Riverview's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Riverview's 3,213-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Riverview's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.