Cannon AFB, NM
Cannon AFB wildfire risk explained
Cannon AFB's 1,079 buildings earn a 87th-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 Cannon AFB at the 87th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
Cannon AFB's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 17.3% of Cannon AFB's 1,079 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 82.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Cannon AFB compares
Inside New Mexico, Cannon AFB sits at just the 68th percentile even though it scores 87th 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, Cannon AFB ranks 4,043 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,408 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 158 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cannon AFB
Cannon AFB's very high rating (87th 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 Cannon AFB
With 82.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cannon AFB gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Cannon AFB's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cannon AFB's 4,043-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cannon AFB's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.