Valle Vista, NM
How exposed is Valle Vista to wildfire?
USFS scores Valle Vista at the 60th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 364 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Valle Vista at the 56th percentile, close to its 60th-percentile risk score.
Where Valle Vista's buildings actually sit
Of Valle Vista's 364 counted buildings, 51.9% 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 Valle Vista compares
Valle Vista's 60th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 30th 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, Valle Vista ranks 12,644 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,983 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 346 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Valle Vista
Valle Vista's elevated wildfire rating (60th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Valle Vista's 51.9% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 364 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Valle Vista. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Valle Vista, see the exposure-zones guide.