High Rolls, NM
High Rolls, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts High Rolls at the 100th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 918 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks High Rolls at the 99th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
High Rolls's building exposure, zone by zone
Of High Rolls's 918 counted buildings, 99.5% 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.
High Rolls against the rest of the country
High Rolls's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Mexico (99th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (100th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, High Rolls ranks 137 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,573 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 5 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
High Rolls's very high rating (100th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in High Rolls
High Rolls's 99.5% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind High Rolls's 137-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond High Rolls, see the exposure-zones guide.