Pueblo Pintado, NM
Pueblo Pintado, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Pueblo Pintado at the 28th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 230 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pueblo Pintado at the 28th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pueblo Pintado's building exposure, zone by zone
99.1% of Pueblo Pintado's 230 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 228 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Pueblo Pintado ranks
Pueblo Pintado's 28th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 1st ranking inside New Mexico does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 26 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pueblo Pintado ranks 22,761 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,801 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 488 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
Pueblo Pintado's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Pueblo Pintado (99.1%), 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 Pintado's 22,761-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 Pintado, see the exposure-zones guide.