Linda, CA
Linda wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Linda at the 79th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 6,570 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Linda's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 79th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
52.7% of Linda's 6,570 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 20.1% Direct and 27.3% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 6,570 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Linda ranks
Inside California, Linda sits at just the 39th percentile even though it scores 79th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Linda ranks 6,581 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,641 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 958 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Linda and the insurance market
Linda sits in California, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. California's FAIR Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, ended 2025 with 668,609 residential policies after adding 21,859 in Q4 alone — the kind of market shift a 79th-percentile score like Linda's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 52.7% of Linda's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Linda's figures come from
Linda's 79th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Linda's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.