Grants, NM
Grants wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Grants lands at the 49th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 4,309 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grants at the 48th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Grants's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Grants's buildings (77.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Grants ranks
Grants's 49th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 15th ranking inside New Mexico does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 34 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grants ranks 15,978 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,973 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 421 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 49th national percentile, Grants rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 77.7% of Grants's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Grants's 49th-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 Grants, see the exposure-zones guide.