Wagon Mound, NM
Wagon Mound wildfire risk explained
Wagon Mound 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 344 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wagon Mound at the 91st national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Wagon Mound's building exposure, zone by zone
344 buildings are counted in Wagon Mound, and 80.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 19.5% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Wagon Mound compares
Wagon Mound's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Mexico (78th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (91st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wagon Mound ranks 2,739 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,472 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 109 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wagon Mound
Wagon Mound's very high rating (91st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 80.5% of Wagon Mound's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 344 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wagon Mound. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wagon Mound, see the exposure-zones guide.