Linden, TX
Linden wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Linden at the 72nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,264 actual buildings. (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 73rd percentile, close to its 72nd-percentile risk score.
Linden's building exposure, zone by zone
69.5% of Linden's 1,264 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 30.5% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Linden against the rest of the country
Linden ranks lower within Texas (37th percentile statewide) than its 72nd 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 8,710 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,274 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,125 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Linden
Linden's high rating (72nd 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 ember exposure the dominant pattern in Linden (69.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Linden's 8,710-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Linden, see the exposure-zones guide.