Butterfield Park, NM
Butterfield Park, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Butterfield Park at the 58th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 374 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Butterfield Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 58th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Butterfield Park's 374 counted buildings, 69% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Butterfield Park compares
Butterfield Park's 58th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 27th ranking inside New Mexico does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 31 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Butterfield Park ranks 13,184 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,785 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 359 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Butterfield Park and the insurance market
Butterfield Park's elevated wildfire rating (58th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 69% of Butterfield Park 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 374 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Butterfield Park. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Butterfield Park, see the exposure-zones guide.