Linden, AL
Linden wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Linden at the 57th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,229 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Linden at the 60th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Linden's buildings actually sit
Of Linden's 1,229 counted buildings, 62.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Linden compares
Linden's 57th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 17th ranking inside Alabama does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 40 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Linden ranks 13,510 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,476 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 492 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Linden
At the 57th national percentile, Linden rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 62.1% of Linden 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
Linden's 57th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Linden, see the exposure-zones guide.