La Madera (Sandoval), NM
La Madera (Sandoval) wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts La Madera (Sandoval) at the 95th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 573 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks La Madera (Sandoval) at the 92nd national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where La Madera (Sandoval)'s buildings actually sit
100% of La Madera (Sandoval)'s 573 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 573 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
La Madera (Sandoval) against the rest of the country
There's little gap between La Madera (Sandoval)'s 95th national percentile and its 84th 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 Madera (Sandoval) ranks 1,607 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,197 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 80 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
La Madera (Sandoval) and the insurance market
La Madera (Sandoval)'s 95th-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.
Hardening a home in La Madera (Sandoval)
La Madera (Sandoval)'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 573 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for La Madera (Sandoval). For more on what direct exposure implies beyond La Madera (Sandoval), see the exposure-zones guide.