Sunland Park, NM
Sunland Park wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sunland Park at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 5,096 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sunland Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 35th percentile nationally.
Sunland Park's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 80.2% of Sunland Park's 5,096 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 18.9% Direct and 0.9% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 5,096 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Sunland Park against the rest of the country
Sunland Park's 34th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 4th ranking inside New Mexico does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 30 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sunland Park ranks 20,800 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,382 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 474 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
Sunland Park's moderate wildfire rating (34th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Sunland Park
Because 80.2% of Sunland Park's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Sunland Park's 34th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sunland Park, see the exposure-zones guide.