Rodeo, NM
How exposed is Rodeo to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rodeo at the 98th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 156 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rodeo at the 98th percentile, close to its 98th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
69.9% of Rodeo's 156 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 109 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 30.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Rodeo compares
Rodeo scores 98th nationally and 94th within New Mexico — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rodeo ranks 730 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,627 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 31 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
Rodeo's 98th-percentile, very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Rodeo (69.9%), 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 Rodeo's 730-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Rodeo, see the exposure-zones guide.