Lindy, NE
Lindy, NE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lindy lands at the 70th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 21 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 Lindy at the 62nd percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
Lindy's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Lindy (76.2% of 21 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 19.1% sit in the Direct zone. This is a small settlement by building count — 21 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
How Lindy compares
Lindy scores 70th nationally and 69th within Nebraska — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lindy ranks 9,458 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,455 by building count (1 is largest). Within Nebraska alone, it ranks 181 of 583 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Nebraska on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lindy
Lindy's high rating (70th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Lindy's 76.2% 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.
Where Lindy's figures come from
Lindy's 70th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. Small places like Lindy (21 buildings) are exactly where USFS's underlying data gets sparsest — see the data-quality guide for the 517 places that didn't clear the bar.