Indian Hills, NM
Indian Hills, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Indian Hills lands at the 87th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 744 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Indian Hills at the 86th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Indian Hills's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Indian Hills's 744 counted buildings, 100% 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.
Indian Hills against the rest of the country
Indian Hills ranks lower within New Mexico (68th percentile statewide) than its 87th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Indian Hills ranks 4,044 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,186 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 159 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Indian Hills and the insurance market
Indian Hills's 87th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Indian Hills's 100% 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
Indian Hills's 87th-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 Indian Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.