Quemado, New Mexico.
Typical home $244,555 (+12.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $106 (-8%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $27,867 +13%
- $216,688$244,555 since Sep 2025
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Quemado$1,284
- New Mexico$1,658
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Quemado, NM rose 12.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Quemado, Catron County, New Mexico
Quemado, in Catron County, had 163 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Catron County was 6.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Quemado is a very small community in Catron County, in western New Mexico. It is the kind of place where people tend to know one another, and the open country around it sets the pace of daily life. Winters are cold, with real snow, and summers are warm without being extreme; the area is dry for most of the year.
Work. Work here follows the pattern of a rural county. Across Catron County, the largest workplaces include the Forest Service and the school districts of Quemado and Reserve. Unemployment across the county has risen over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Zuñi Salt Lake, a lake reached by a longer drive. Beyond that, the draw is the quiet of the surrounding high desert country, which suits people who like open space and unhurried days.
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Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 52°. About 18 inches of snow and 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Quemado weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Catron County
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture39
- Quemado SchoolsSchool district30FTE
- Reserve SchoolsSchool district25FTE
Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- LightningVery high
- WildfireVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Quemado’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Catron County.
Quemado home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Quemado$244,555
- New Mexico$315,812
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Quemado listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Quemado12.50%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Quemado24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Quemado address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Quemado — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.