Los Ojos, NM
Los Ojos wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Los Ojos at the 79th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 192 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Los Ojos at the 79th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
192 buildings are counted in Los Ojos, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Los Ojos compares
Inside New Mexico, Los Ojos sits at just the 51st percentile even though it scores 79th 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, Los Ojos ranks 6,777 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,170 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 244 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Los Ojos
Los Ojos's high rating (79th 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 Los Ojos
Los Ojos'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 Los Ojos's figures come from
Los Ojos's 79th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Los Ojos's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.