Ashland, OK
Ashland, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ashland at the 98th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 67 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ashland at the 99th percentile, close to its 98th-percentile risk score.
Where Ashland's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Ashland: 95.5% of its 67 buildings, versus 4.5% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Ashland compares
There's little gap between Ashland's 98th national percentile and its 98th percentile inside Oklahoma, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ashland ranks 636 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,393 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 21 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ashland
Ashland's very high rating (98th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Ashland
Ashland's 95.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 67 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Ashland. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ashland, see the exposure-zones guide.