La Tierra, NM
How exposed is La Tierra to wildfire?
USFS scores La Tierra at the 85th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 339 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (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 Tierra at the 80th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
La Tierra's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 100% of La Tierra's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 339 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
La Tierra against the rest of the country
Inside New Mexico, La Tierra sits at just the 64th percentile even though it scores 85th 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 Tierra ranks 4,671 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,599 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 180 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in La Tierra
La Tierra's very high rating (85th 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 Tierra
La Tierra'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.
Where La Tierra's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind La Tierra's 4,671-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what La Tierra's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.