Belfonte, OK
How exposed is Belfonte to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Belfonte lands at the 95th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 236 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 Belfonte at the 97th percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
Where Belfonte's buildings actually sit
Of Belfonte's 236 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Belfonte compares
Belfonte's 95th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 77th ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 18 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Belfonte ranks 1,736 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,609 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 196 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Belfonte
Belfonte's 95th-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 Belfonte
Because Direct exposure dominates in Belfonte (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Belfonte's 1,736-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Belfonte, see the exposure-zones guide.