Linden, AZ
How exposed is Linden to wildfire?
USFS scores Linden at the 96th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 2,202 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Linden at the 93rd national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Linden's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Linden's 2,202 counted buildings, 98.9% 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
Inside Arizona, Linden sits at just the 76th percentile even though it scores 96th 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, Linden ranks 1,404 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,930 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arizona alone, it ranks 105 of 441 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arizona on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Linden
Linden's very high rating (96th 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 Linden
With 98.9% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Linden's 1,404-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Linden, see the exposure-zones guide.