Dora, NM
How exposed is Dora to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Dora at the 99th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 196 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dora at the 99th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 85.2% of Dora's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 13.3% Indirect share and far above its 1.5% Minimal share — a profile where 167 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Dora compares
Dora's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Mexico (96th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (99th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dora ranks 451 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,006 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 21 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Dora and the insurance market
At the 99th percentile nationally, Dora carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Dora's 85.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Dora's 99th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dora, see the exposure-zones guide.