Animas, NM
Animas, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Animas's 242 buildings earn a 90th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Animas at the 91st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 88% of Animas's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 12% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 213 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Animas compares
Animas's 90th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 75th ranking inside New Mexico does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 15 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Animas ranks 3,125 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,393 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 124 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Animas
Animas's 90th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 88% of Animas in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Animas's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Animas's 3,125-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Animas's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.