Borrego Pass, NM
How exposed is Borrego Pass to wildfire?
Borrego Pass's 78 buildings earn a 42nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Borrego Pass's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 38th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 100% of Borrego Pass's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 78 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Borrego Pass compares
Borrego Pass's 42nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 9th ranking inside New Mexico does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 33 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Borrego Pass ranks 18,342 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,977 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 453 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Borrego Pass and the insurance market
Borrego Pass's elevated wildfire rating (42nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Borrego Pass (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Borrego Pass's 18,342-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Borrego Pass, see the exposure-zones guide.