San Pedro, NM
How exposed is San Pedro to wildfire?
San Pedro sits at the 91st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 204 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, San Pedro's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 86th percentile nationally.
Where San Pedro's buildings actually sit
Of San Pedro's 204 counted buildings, 100% 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.
How San Pedro compares
San Pedro's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Mexico (77th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (91st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, San Pedro ranks 2,865 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,703 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 113 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in San Pedro
San Pedro's 91st-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 Pedro
With 100% of San Pedro 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
San Pedro's 91st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond San Pedro, see the exposure-zones guide.