Butler (Custer), OK
How exposed is Butler (Custer) to wildfire?
USFS scores Butler (Custer) at the 94th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 271 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Butler (Custer)'s burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 93rd percentile nationally.
Butler (Custer)'s building exposure, zone by zone
69.7% of Butler (Custer)'s 271 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 30.3% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Butler (Custer) against the rest of the country
Inside Oklahoma, Butler (Custer) sits at just the 69th percentile even though it scores 94th 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, Butler (Custer) ranks 2,051 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,482 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 262 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Butler (Custer) and the insurance market
Butler (Custer)'s 94th-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 Butler (Custer)
Because 69.7% of Butler (Custer)'s buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Butler (Custer)'s 2,051-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Butler (Custer), see the exposure-zones guide.