Jarales, NM
Jarales, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Jarales's 1,654 buildings earn a 56th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Jarales's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 55th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Jarales: 85.6% of its 1,654 buildings, versus 4.1% Indirect and 10.3% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Jarales ranks
Jarales's 56th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 24th ranking inside New Mexico does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 32 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jarales ranks 13,712 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,580 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 375 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jarales
Jarales's elevated wildfire rating (56th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Jarales
Jarales's 85.6% 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 Jarales's 13,712-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Jarales, see the exposure-zones guide.