Youngsville, NM
Youngsville wildfire risk explained
Youngsville sits at the 95th 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 58 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Youngsville at the 93rd percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Youngsville's 58 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.
How Youngsville compares
Youngsville scores 95th nationally and 84th within New Mexico — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Youngsville ranks 1,675 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,719 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Mexico alone, it ranks 82 of 495 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Mexico on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Youngsville
Youngsville'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Youngsville (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Youngsville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Youngsville's 1,675-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Youngsville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.