Kirtland, NM
How exposed is Kirtland to wildfire?
Kirtland's 423 buildings earn a 50th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kirtland at the 51st percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
Kirtland's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 61.2% of Kirtland's 423 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 20.3% Direct and 18.4% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Kirtland compares
Inside New Mexico, Kirtland sits at just the 16th percentile even though it scores 50th 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, Kirtland ranks 15,700 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,779 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 414 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kirtland
Kirtland's elevated wildfire rating (50th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 61.2% of Kirtland'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
Kirtland's 50th-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 Kirtland, see the exposure-zones guide.