Tiverton, RI
How exposed is Tiverton to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tiverton at the 17th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 3,755 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tiverton at the 14th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Tiverton's building exposure, zone by zone
71.8% of Tiverton's 3,755 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 13.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Tiverton compares
Within Rhode Island, Tiverton ranks higher (51st percentile) than it does nationally (17th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tiverton ranks 26,299 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,471 by building count (1 is largest). Within Rhode Island alone, it ranks 18 of 36 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Rhode Island on its state page.
Tiverton and the insurance market
Tiverton's low rating (17th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Tiverton
Even with 71.8% of Tiverton outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tiverton's 26,299-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Tiverton, see the exposure-zones guide.