Linden, CA
How exposed is Linden to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Linden lands at the 85th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,047 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Linden at the 87th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Linden's buildings (52.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Linden compares
Linden ranks lower within California (49th percentile statewide) than its 85th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Linden ranks 4,812 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,604 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 797 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Linden
Linden's 85th-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
What would actually reduce this score
Linden's 52.5% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,047 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Linden. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Linden, see the exposure-zones guide.