Cayuga, OK
Cayuga, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Cayuga lands at the 86th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 159 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cayuga at the 88th percentile, close to its 86th-percentile risk score.
Cayuga's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 99.4% of Cayuga's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0.6% Minimal share — a profile where 158 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Cayuga compares
Cayuga's 86th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 33rd ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 52 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cayuga ranks 4,543 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,492 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 558 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Cayuga and the insurance market
At the 86th percentile nationally, Cayuga 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
With 99.4% of Cayuga in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cayuga's 4,543-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cayuga, see the exposure-zones guide.