Riviera, TX
Riviera, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Riviera lands at the 86th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 535 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 Riviera at the 87th percentile, close to its 86th-percentile risk score.
Where Riviera's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Riviera: 58.7% of its 535 buildings, versus 41.3% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Riviera ranks
Riviera scores 86th nationally and 75th within Texas — 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 ranks 4,552 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,807 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 458 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Riviera and the insurance market
Riviera's very high rating (86th 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 58.7% of Riviera in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Riviera's 4,552-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Riviera, see the exposure-zones guide.