Lind, WA
How exposed is Lind to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lind at the 88th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 482 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lind at the 87th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Lind's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Lind (83.6% of 482 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 16.4% sit in the Direct zone.
How Lind compares
Lind's risk sits at a similar level relative to Washington (79th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (88th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lind ranks 3,955 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,680 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 136 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Lind and the insurance market
Lind's very high rating (88th 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.
Hardening a home in Lind
Lind's 83.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lind's 3,955-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lind, see the exposure-zones guide.