Ojo Sarco, NM
Ojo Sarco wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ojo Sarco at the 97th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 293 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ojo Sarco at the 94th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Ojo Sarco's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Ojo Sarco's 293 counted buildings, 100% 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.
How Ojo Sarco compares
Ojo Sarco scores 97th nationally and 91st 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, Ojo Sarco ranks 919 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,831 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 42 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ojo Sarco
Ojo Sarco'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Ojo Sarco'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ojo Sarco's 919-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ojo Sarco, see the exposure-zones guide.