Sedillo, NM
Sedillo, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sedillo's 498 buildings earn a 92nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sedillo at the 90th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Sedillo's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Sedillo: 92.8% of its 498 buildings, versus 7.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Sedillo compares
Sedillo scores 92nd nationally and 80th within New Mexico — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sedillo ranks 2,458 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,392 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 100 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Sedillo and the insurance market
Sedillo's 92nd-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 Sedillo
Sedillo's 92.8% 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 Sedillo's figures come from
Sedillo's 92nd-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 Sedillo's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.