Causey, NM
Causey, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Causey lands at the 98th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 117 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Causey at the 99th percentile, close to its 98th-percentile risk score.
Where Causey's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 90.6% of Causey's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 3.4% Indirect share and far above its 6% Minimal share — a profile where 106 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Causey against the rest of the country
Causey scores 98th nationally and 95th 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, Causey ranks 514 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,319 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 24 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Causey
Causey's 98th-percentile, very 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
Causey's 90.6% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Causey's 514-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Causey, see the exposure-zones guide.