Seton Village, NM
How exposed is Seton Village to wildfire?
Seton Village's 51 buildings earn a 86th-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 Seton Village at the 80th national percentile — 6 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Seton Village's building exposure, zone by zone
51 buildings are counted in Seton Village, 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.
How Seton Village compares
Inside New Mexico, Seton Village sits at just the 64th percentile even though it scores 86th 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, Seton Village ranks 4,580 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,907 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 178 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
At the 86th percentile nationally, Seton Village carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Seton Village's 100% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Seton Village's 4,580-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Seton Village, see the exposure-zones guide.