Lyndon Center, VT
Lyndon Center wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lyndon Center at the 12th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 94 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 Lyndon Center at the 12th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 69.2% of Lyndon Center's 94 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 30.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Lyndon Center ranks
Lyndon Center's risk sits at a similar level relative to Vermont (7th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (12th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lyndon Center ranks 27,909 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,339 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 165 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
Lyndon Center and the insurance market
Lyndon Center's low rating (12th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Lyndon Center's 69.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Lyndon Center's 12th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lyndon Center, see the exposure-zones guide.