Cañada de los Alamos, NM
How exposed is Cañada de los Alamos to wildfire?
Cañada de los Alamos sits at the 96th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 342 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cañada de los Alamos at the 90th percentile, close to its 96th-percentile risk score.
Where Cañada de los Alamos's buildings actually sit
342 buildings are counted in Cañada de los Alamos, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Cañada de los Alamos ranks
There's little gap between Cañada de los Alamos's 96th national percentile and its 87th percentile inside New Mexico, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cañada de los Alamos ranks 1,388 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,521 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 64 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Cañada de los Alamos's very high rating (96th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Cañada de los Alamos's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 342 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cañada de los Alamos. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cañada de los Alamos, see the exposure-zones guide.