La Puebla, NM
La Puebla wildfire risk explained
USFS scores La Puebla at the 69th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 782 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, La Puebla's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 67th percentile nationally.
La Puebla's building exposure, zone by zone
97.7% of La Puebla's 782 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 764 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 2.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where La Puebla ranks
La Puebla ranks lower within New Mexico (41st percentile statewide) than its 69th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Puebla ranks 9,649 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,796 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 293 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in La Puebla
La Puebla's 69th-percentile, 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 Puebla
La Puebla's 97.7% 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
La Puebla's 69th-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 Puebla, see the exposure-zones guide.