La Huerta, NM
La Huerta wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, La Huerta lands at the 63rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,090 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks La Huerta at the 64th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
61.3% of La Huerta's 1,090 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 668 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 38.7% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where La Huerta ranks
Inside New Mexico, La Huerta sits at just the 34th percentile even though it scores 63rd 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, La Huerta ranks 11,701 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,341 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 328 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
La Huerta and the insurance market
La Huerta's high rating (63rd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in La Huerta
With 61.3% of La Huerta 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
La Huerta's 63rd-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 La Huerta, see the exposure-zones guide.