San Antonio, NM
San Antonio, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores San Antonio at the 71st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 182 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks San Antonio at the 67th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where San Antonio's buildings actually sit
61.5% of San Antonio's 182 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 38.5% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where San Antonio ranks
Inside New Mexico, San Antonio sits at just the 42nd percentile even though it scores 71st 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, San Antonio ranks 9,147 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,550 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 290 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
San Antonio's 71st-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.
What would actually reduce this score
San Antonio's 61.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where San Antonio's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind San Antonio's 9,147-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what San Antonio's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.