Cañon, NM
Cañon, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Cañon at the 88th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 357 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cañon at the 85th percentile, close to its 88th-percentile risk score.
Cañon's building exposure, zone by zone
99.2% of Cañon's 357 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 354 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Cañon ranks
Cañon's 88th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 70th ranking inside New Mexico does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 18 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cañon ranks 3,788 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,135 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 148 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cañon
Cañon's very high rating (88th 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.
Hardening a home in Cañon
Cañon's 99.2% 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.
Where Cañon's figures come from
Cañon's 88th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cañon's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.