San Ildefonso Pueblo, NM
San Ildefonso Pueblo, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores San Ildefonso Pueblo at the 84th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 375 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, San Ildefonso Pueblo's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 82nd percentile nationally.
Where San Ildefonso Pueblo's buildings actually sit
Of San Ildefonso Pueblo's 375 counted buildings, 96.3% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
San Ildefonso Pueblo against the rest of the country
Inside New Mexico, San Ildefonso Pueblo sits at just the 60th percentile even though it scores 84th 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 Ildefonso Pueblo ranks 5,045 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,766 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 198 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 Ildefonso Pueblo's 84th-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.
Hardening a home in San Ildefonso Pueblo
San Ildefonso Pueblo's 96.3% 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.
Where San Ildefonso Pueblo's figures come from
San Ildefonso Pueblo's 84th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what San Ildefonso Pueblo's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.