Bartlesville, OK
How exposed is Bartlesville to wildfire?
Bartlesville's 17,563 buildings earn a 90th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bartlesville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 91st percentile nationally.
Where Bartlesville's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 46% of Bartlesville's 17,563 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 17.7% Direct and 36.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 17,563 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Bartlesville ranks
Inside Oklahoma, Bartlesville sits at just the 46th percentile even though it scores 90th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bartlesville ranks 3,315 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 815 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 453 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 90th percentile nationally, Bartlesville carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Bartlesville
Because 46% of Bartlesville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Bartlesville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 17,563 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bartlesville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bartlesville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.