Bridge Creek, OK
Bridge Creek, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bridge Creek's 224 buildings earn a 91st-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bridge Creek at the 92nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Bridge Creek: 92.9% of its 224 buildings, versus 7.1% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Bridge Creek compares
Bridge Creek's 91st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 53rd ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 38 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bridge Creek ranks 2,777 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,989 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 388 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bridge Creek
At the 91st percentile nationally, Bridge Creek 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Bridge Creek's 92.9% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 224 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bridge Creek. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bridge Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.