Hillsboro, NM
How exposed is Hillsboro to wildfire?
USFS scores Hillsboro at the 78th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 269 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hillsboro at the 79th percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
269 buildings are counted in Hillsboro, and 66.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Hillsboro ranks
Inside New Mexico, Hillsboro sits at just the 50th percentile even though it scores 78th 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, Hillsboro ranks 7,061 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,542 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 247 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hillsboro
Hillsboro's 78th-percentile, 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 66.9% of Hillsboro 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.
More on how this number was built
Hillsboro's 78th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hillsboro, see the exposure-zones guide.