Lindsay, CA
Lindsay, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Lindsay at the 85th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 3,618 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lindsay at the 87th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Where Lindsay's buildings actually sit
Only 7.7% of Lindsay's 3,618 buildings carry Direct exposure and 22.9% carry Indirect; the remaining 69.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Lindsay ranks
Lindsay's 85th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 50th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 35 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lindsay ranks 4,716 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,634 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 785 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lindsay
Because Lindsay is in California, a wildfire-hazard disclosure is legally required before a sale closes here — unusual nationally, since only these two states mandate it. The state's FAIR Plan alone carried 668,609 policies by the end of 2025. Full detail in the disclosure-law guide.
Hardening a home in Lindsay
Even with 69.3% of Lindsay outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Lindsay's figures come from
Lindsay's 85th-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 Lindsay's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.