Soham, NM
Soham wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Soham at the 88th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 117 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Soham at the 83rd national percentile — 6 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Soham's building exposure, zone by zone
117 buildings are counted in Soham, and 98.3% 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.
Where Soham ranks
Soham ranks lower within New Mexico (71st percentile statewide) than its 88th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Soham ranks 3,691 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,320 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 145 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Soham
Soham's 88th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 98.3% of Soham 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
Soham's 88th-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 Soham, see the exposure-zones guide.