Bushyhead, OK
Bushyhead, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Bushyhead at the 82nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,014 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bushyhead at the 84th 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
Of Bushyhead's 1,014 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 Bushyhead compares
Inside Oklahoma, Bushyhead sits at just the 26th percentile even though it scores 82nd 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, Bushyhead ranks 5,618 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,840 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 618 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Bushyhead and the insurance market
Bushyhead's 82nd-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
Bushyhead'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 Bushyhead's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bushyhead's 5,618-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bushyhead's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.