Stanley, NM
Stanley, NM's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Stanley at the 83rd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 90 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Stanley at the 82nd percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
Where Stanley's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Stanley: 100% of its 90 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Stanley ranks
Stanley's 83rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 58th ranking inside New Mexico does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 25 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Stanley ranks 5,424 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,501 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 209 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Stanley and the insurance market
Stanley's 83rd-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 100% of Stanley 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.
Where Stanley's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 90 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Stanley. The exposure-zones guide covers what Stanley's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.