Radium Springs, NM
Radium Springs, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Radium Springs lands at the 65th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,221 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Radium Springs at the 64th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Radium Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
93.6% of Radium Springs's 1,221 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,143 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 6.4% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Radium Springs compares
Inside New Mexico, Radium Springs sits at just the 37th percentile even though it scores 65th 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, Radium Springs ranks 10,911 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,530 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 315 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Radium Springs and the insurance market
Radium Springs's high rating (65th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 93.6% of Radium Springs in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,221 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Radium Springs. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Radium Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.