Pueblitos, NM
How exposed is Pueblitos to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pueblitos lands at the 54th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 489 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pueblitos's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 53rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Pueblitos: 90.2% of its 489 buildings, versus 8.8% Indirect and 1% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Pueblitos ranks
Inside New Mexico, Pueblitos sits at just the 20th percentile even though it scores 54th 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, Pueblitos ranks 14,569 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,554 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 394 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
Pueblitos's elevated wildfire rating (54th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Pueblitos's 90.2% 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
Pueblitos's 54th-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 Pueblitos, see the exposure-zones guide.