Sena, NM
How exposed is Sena to wildfire?
Sena sits at the 85th 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 159 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sena's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 79th percentile nationally.
Sena's building exposure, zone by zone
159 buildings are counted in Sena, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Sena against the rest of the country
Inside New Mexico, Sena sits at just the 64th percentile even though it scores 85th 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, Sena ranks 4,705 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,488 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 182 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Sena and the insurance market
Sena's 85th-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 Sena
With 100% of Sena 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
Sena's 85th-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 Sena, see the exposure-zones guide.