Box, OK
Box wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Box at the 96th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 170 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 Box at the 98th percentile, close to its 96th-percentile risk score.
Where Box's buildings actually sit
100% of Box's 170 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 170 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Box compares
There's little gap between Box's 96th national percentile and its 89th percentile inside Oklahoma, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Box ranks 1,135 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,041 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 92 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Box
At the 96th percentile nationally, Box 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Box's 100% 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.
Where Box's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Box's 1,135-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Box's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.