Riviera Beach, FL
Riviera Beach, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Riviera Beach at the 89th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 9,909 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Riviera Beach's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 88th percentile nationally.
Where Riviera Beach's buildings actually sit
99.1% of Riviera Beach's 9,909 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 9,909 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Riviera Beach compares
Riviera Beach scores 89th nationally and 77th within Florida — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riviera Beach ranks 3,559 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,634 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 221 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Riviera Beach
Riviera Beach's very high rating (89th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 99.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Riviera Beach 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
Riviera Beach's 89th-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 Riviera Beach, see the exposure-zones guide.