Badger Lee, OK
Badger Lee wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Badger Lee lands at the 96th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 52 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Badger Lee at the 98th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Badger Lee's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Badger Lee: 100% of its 52 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Badger Lee ranks
There's little gap between Badger Lee's 96th national percentile and its 85th percentile inside Oklahoma, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Badger Lee ranks 1,296 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,884 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 123 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Badger Lee and the insurance market
Badger Lee's 96th-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.
Hardening a home in Badger Lee
With 100% of Badger Lee in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Badger Lee's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Badger Lee's 1,296-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Badger Lee's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.