Analysis of FIA data for New Mexico shows that 2.4 million acres of ponderosa pine and dry mixed conifer forests rate high for fire hazard. A restoration treatment designed to address altered ecological conditions in these forests increased average crowning index (i.e., the wind speed necessary to maintain a crown fire) by 50 mph, compared to only 23 mph for a thin-from-below approach designed to reduce hazard. After we projected treated stands forward 30 years, only one-eighth of the acres receiving the thin-from-below treatment remained low hazard, compared to over half receiving the restoration treatment.