East Pecos, NM
East Pecos, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, East Pecos lands at the 97th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 479 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 East Pecos at the 94th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of East Pecos's 479 counted buildings, 90.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where East Pecos ranks
East Pecos's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Mexico (90th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (97th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Pecos ranks 976 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,729 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 49 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
East Pecos and the insurance market
East Pecos's 97th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in East Pecos (90.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where East Pecos's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Pecos's 976-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what East Pecos's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.