Candy Kitchen, NM
Candy Kitchen, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Candy Kitchen's 237 buildings earn a 71st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Candy Kitchen's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 62nd percentile nationally.
Where Candy Kitchen's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 100% of Candy Kitchen's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 237 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Candy Kitchen compares
Inside New Mexico, Candy Kitchen sits at just the 41st percentile even though it scores 71st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Candy Kitchen ranks 9,208 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,562 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 291 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Candy Kitchen and the insurance market
Candy Kitchen's 71st-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Candy Kitchen'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.
Where Candy Kitchen's figures come from
Candy Kitchen's 71st-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 Candy Kitchen's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.