Las Tusas, NM
Las Tusas, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Las Tusas lands at the 91st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 378 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Las Tusas at the 90th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Las Tusas's building exposure, zone by zone
100% of Las Tusas's 378 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 378 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Las Tusas ranks
There's little gap between Las Tusas's 91st national percentile and its 77th 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, Las Tusas ranks 2,900 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,695 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 116 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Las Tusas's 91st-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 100% of Las Tusas 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Las Tusas's 2,900-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Las Tusas, see the exposure-zones guide.