Torreon (Torrance), NM
Torreon (Torrance) wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Torreon (Torrance) at the 95th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 278 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 Torreon (Torrance) at the 92nd percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
Torreon (Torrance)'s building exposure, zone by zone
98.6% of Torreon (Torrance)'s 278 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 274 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 1.4% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Torreon (Torrance) compares
Torreon (Torrance)'s risk sits at a similar level relative to New Mexico (83rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (95th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Torreon (Torrance) ranks 1,706 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,274 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 84 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Torreon (Torrance) and the insurance market
Torreon (Torrance)'s 95th-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
Torreon (Torrance)'s 98.6% 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.
Where Torreon (Torrance)'s figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Torreon (Torrance)'s 1,706-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Torreon (Torrance)'s dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.