Organ, NM
Organ wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Organ at the 57th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 205 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 Organ at the 57th percentile, close to its 57th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 67.8% of Organ's 205 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 32.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Organ against the rest of the country
Inside New Mexico, Organ sits at just the 25th percentile even though it scores 57th 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, Organ ranks 13,681 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,665 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 374 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 57th national percentile, Organ rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Organ (67.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Organ's 13,681-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Organ, see the exposure-zones guide.