San Ysidro (Doña Ana), NM
San Ysidro (Doña Ana), NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
San Ysidro (Doña Ana)'s 1,237 buildings earn a 32nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts San Ysidro (Doña Ana) at the 30th percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in San Ysidro (Doña Ana): 52.3% of its 1,237 buildings, versus 8.2% Indirect and 39.5% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
San Ysidro (Doña Ana) against the rest of the country
San Ysidro (Doña Ana)'s 32nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 3rd ranking inside New Mexico does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 29 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, San Ysidro (Doña Ana) ranks 21,304 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,430 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 478 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 Ysidro (Doña Ana)'s moderate wildfire rating (32nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 52.3% of San Ysidro (Doña Ana) 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind San Ysidro (Doña Ana)'s 21,304-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 Ysidro (Doña Ana), see the exposure-zones guide.