Riviera Beach, MD
How exposed is Riviera Beach to wildfire?
USFS scores Riviera Beach at the 33rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 3,766 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Riviera Beach at the 32nd percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Riviera Beach rates 51.5% Minimal exposure against just 6.9% Direct and 41.6% Indirect — of 3,766 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Riviera Beach compares
Within Maryland, Riviera Beach ranks higher (51st percentile) than it does nationally (33rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riviera Beach ranks 21,237 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,456 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 259 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Riviera Beach's moderate rating (33rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 51.5% 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.
Where Riviera Beach's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Riviera Beach's 21,237-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Riviera Beach's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.