Altus, OK
Altus, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Altus lands at the 63rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 10,029 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Altus at the 59th percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
Altus's building exposure, zone by zone
93.1% of Altus's 10,029 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 6.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 10,029 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Altus ranks
Altus ranks lower within Oklahoma (9th percentile statewide) than its 63rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Altus ranks 11,731 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,605 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 758 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Altus and the insurance market
Altus's 63rd-percentile, 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Altus's 93.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Altus's 63rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Altus, see the exposure-zones guide.