Chouteau, OK
Chouteau, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Chouteau's 1,321 buildings earn a 82nd-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Chouteau at the 84th percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Chouteau: 58.6% of its 1,321 buildings, versus 37.2% Indirect and 4.2% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Chouteau ranks
Chouteau's 82nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 25th ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 57 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chouteau ranks 5,775 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,969 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 627 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Chouteau
Chouteau's very high rating (82nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Chouteau
Chouteau's 58.6% 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 1,321 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Chouteau. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Chouteau, see the exposure-zones guide.