Timberon, NM
How exposed is Timberon to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Timberon at the 99th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 750 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Timberon's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 98th percentile nationally.
Where Timberon's buildings actually sit
Of Timberon's 750 counted buildings, 100% 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.
Timberon against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Timberon's 99th national percentile and its 96th 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, Timberon ranks 420 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,124 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 20 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Timberon
Timberon's very high rating (99th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Timberon's 100% 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 Timberon's 420-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Timberon, see the exposure-zones guide.