Seboyeta, NM
Seboyeta, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Seboyeta's 188 buildings earn a 69th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Seboyeta at the 65th percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Seboyeta's 188 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 Seboyeta compares
Seboyeta ranks lower within New Mexico (41st percentile statewide) than its 69th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Seboyeta ranks 9,679 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,324 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 294 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Seboyeta and the insurance market
Seboyeta's 69th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Seboyeta (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Seboyeta's 9,679-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Seboyeta, see the exposure-zones guide.