Eunice, NM
Eunice, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Eunice at the 92nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,899 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Eunice at the 93rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,899 buildings are counted in Eunice, and 87.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 12.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Eunice compares
Eunice scores 92nd nationally and 79th 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, Eunice ranks 2,587 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,768 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 105 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Eunice and the insurance market
Eunice's 92nd-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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Eunice (87.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Eunice's 92nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Eunice, see the exposure-zones guide.