Cañones, NM
Cañones, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cañones's 89 buildings earn a 97th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cañones at the 94th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
Cañones's building exposure, zone by zone
89 buildings are counted in Cañones, 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.
Cañones against the rest of the country
Cañones scores 97th nationally and 89th within New Mexico — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cañones ranks 1,102 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,544 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 56 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
Cañones's very high rating (97th 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 Cañones
Because Direct exposure dominates in Cañones (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 Cañones's 1,102-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cañones, see the exposure-zones guide.