Tesuque, NM
Tesuque wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tesuque at the 93rd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 973 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Tesuque's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 88th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Tesuque's 973 counted buildings, 96.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Tesuque compares
Tesuque scores 93rd nationally and 81st within New Mexico — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tesuque ranks 2,140 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,120 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 94 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tesuque
At the 93rd percentile nationally, Tesuque 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.
Hardening a home in Tesuque
Tesuque's 96.8% 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 Tesuque's 2,140-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tesuque, see the exposure-zones guide.