Eldorado at Santa Fe, NM
Eldorado at Santa Fe wildfire risk explained
Eldorado at Santa Fe's 3,648 buildings earn a 80th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Eldorado at Santa Fe at the 73rd national percentile — 7 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Eldorado at Santa Fe's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Eldorado at Santa Fe: 99.9% of its 3,648 buildings, versus 0.1% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Eldorado at Santa Fe compares
Inside New Mexico, Eldorado at Santa Fe sits at just the 53rd percentile even though it scores 80th 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, Eldorado at Santa Fe ranks 6,274 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,589 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 232 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Eldorado at Santa Fe
Eldorado at Santa Fe's 80th-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.
Hardening a home in Eldorado at Santa Fe
With 99.9% of Eldorado at Santa Fe in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Eldorado at Santa Fe's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,648 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Eldorado at Santa Fe. The exposure-zones guide covers what Eldorado at Santa Fe's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.