Lynden, WA
Lynden, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Lynden sits at the 7th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 5,140 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lynden's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 9th percentile nationally.
Where Lynden's buildings actually sit
Lynden rates 72.2% Minimal exposure against just 6.7% Direct and 21.2% Indirect — of 5,140 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 5,140 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Lynden compares
There's little gap between Lynden's 7th national percentile and its 5th percentile inside Washington, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lynden ranks 29,454 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,359 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 597 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lynden
Lynden's low rating (7th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Lynden
Lynden's 72.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Lynden's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lynden's 29,454-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lynden's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.