Williams Acres, NM
Williams Acres wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Williams Acres lands at the 33rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 267 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Williams Acres at the 34th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Williams Acres's building exposure, zone by zone
73% of Williams Acres's 267 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 27% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Williams Acres compares
Williams Acres's 33rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 4th ranking inside New Mexico does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 29 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Williams Acres ranks 21,057 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,607 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 476 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Williams Acres and the insurance market
Williams Acres's moderate rating (33rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Williams Acres
Williams Acres's 73% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Williams Acres's 21,057-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Williams Acres, see the exposure-zones guide.