La Cueva (Santa Fe), NM
La Cueva (Santa Fe) wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts La Cueva (Santa Fe) at the 97th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 384 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts La Cueva (Santa Fe) at the 93rd percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
Where La Cueva (Santa Fe)'s buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in La Cueva (Santa Fe): 99.5% of its 384 buildings, versus 0.5% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How La Cueva (Santa Fe) compares
There's little gap between La Cueva (Santa Fe)'s 97th national percentile and its 91st percentile inside New Mexico, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Cueva (Santa Fe) ranks 949 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,549 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 47 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in La Cueva (Santa Fe)
At the 97th percentile nationally, La Cueva (Santa Fe) carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99.5% of La Cueva (Santa Fe) 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.
Where La Cueva (Santa Fe)'s figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 384 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for La Cueva (Santa Fe). The exposure-zones guide covers what La Cueva (Santa Fe)'s dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.