Nadine, NM
Nadine, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Nadine's 478 buildings earn a 93rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Nadine at the 94th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Nadine's buildings actually sit
478 buildings are counted in Nadine, and 87.9% 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.
Nadine against the rest of the country
Nadine's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Mexico (81st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (93rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nadine ranks 2,209 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,749 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 95 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Nadine and the insurance market
Nadine's 93rd-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
Nadine's 87.9% 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
Nadine's 93rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Nadine, see the exposure-zones guide.