Tijeras, NM
Tijeras wildfire risk explained
Tijeras sits at the 91st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 364 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tijeras at the 88th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Tijeras: 76.4% of its 364 buildings, versus 23.6% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Tijeras compares
There's little gap between Tijeras's 91st national percentile and its 78th percentile inside New Mexico, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tijeras ranks 2,835 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,982 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 112 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Tijeras and the insurance market
At the 91st percentile nationally, Tijeras 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 76.4% of Tijeras 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tijeras's 2,835-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tijeras, see the exposure-zones guide.