Los Cerrillos, NM
Los Cerrillos wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Los Cerrillos at the 80th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 227 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Los Cerrillos at the 75th percentile, close to its 80th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Los Cerrillos: 68.3% of its 227 buildings, versus 31.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Los Cerrillos against the rest of the country
Los Cerrillos ranks lower within New Mexico (53rd percentile statewide) than its 80th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Los Cerrillos ranks 6,343 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,890 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 235 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Los Cerrillos and the insurance market
Los Cerrillos's high rating (80th 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
Los Cerrillos's 68.3% 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 227 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Los Cerrillos. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Los Cerrillos, see the exposure-zones guide.