Blanchard, OK
Blanchard, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Blanchard sits at the 91st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 4,636 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Blanchard at the 92nd percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
Where Blanchard's buildings actually sit
Of Blanchard's 4,636 counted buildings, 79.7% 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 Blanchard compares
Inside Oklahoma, Blanchard sits at just the 52nd percentile even though it scores 91st 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, Blanchard ranks 2,867 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,666 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 399 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blanchard
Blanchard's 91st-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Blanchard (79.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Blanchard's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blanchard's 2,867-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Blanchard's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.