Little Walnut Village, NM
Little Walnut Village wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Little Walnut Village at the 97th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 925 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 Little Walnut Village at the 95th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
Where Little Walnut Village's buildings actually sit
Of Little Walnut Village's 925 counted buildings, 85% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Little Walnut Village ranks
Little Walnut Village scores 97th nationally and 93rd within New Mexico — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Little Walnut Village ranks 858 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,512 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 36 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Little Walnut Village
Little Walnut Village's very high rating (97th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 85% of Little Walnut Village 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 Little Walnut Village's 858-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Little Walnut Village, see the exposure-zones guide.