Linton, ND
How exposed is Linton to wildfire?
USFS scores Linton at the 89th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 912 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 Linton at the 85th percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Linton (95.2% of 912 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 4.8% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Linton ranks
Linton's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Dakota (99th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (89th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Linton ranks 3,378 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,621 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 4 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Linton
Linton's 89th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Linton
Because 95.2% of Linton's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Linton's 3,378-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Linton, see the exposure-zones guide.