San Felipe Pueblo, NM
How exposed is San Felipe Pueblo to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts San Felipe Pueblo at the 69th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 679 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, San Felipe Pueblo's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 67th percentile nationally.
Where San Felipe Pueblo's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in San Felipe Pueblo: 77.9% of its 679 buildings, versus 22.1% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where San Felipe Pueblo ranks
Inside New Mexico, San Felipe Pueblo sits at just the 40th percentile even though it scores 69th 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 Felipe Pueblo ranks 9,747 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,874 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 296 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
San Felipe Pueblo and the insurance market
San Felipe Pueblo's high rating (69th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
San Felipe Pueblo's 77.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind San Felipe Pueblo's 9,747-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond San Felipe Pueblo, see the exposure-zones guide.