Pueblo of Sandia Village, NM
Pueblo of Sandia Village, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pueblo of Sandia Village's 188 buildings earn a 61st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pueblo of Sandia Village at the 60th percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Pueblo of Sandia Village's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 80.3% of Pueblo of Sandia Village's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 19.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 151 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Pueblo of Sandia Village ranks
Pueblo of Sandia Village's 61st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 31st ranking inside New Mexico does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 30 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pueblo of Sandia Village ranks 12,421 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,323 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 344 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pueblo of Sandia Village
Pueblo of Sandia Village's 61st-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Pueblo of Sandia Village (80.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pueblo of Sandia Village's 12,421-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pueblo of Sandia Village, see the exposure-zones guide.