Cushing, OK
Cushing wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Cushing at the 94th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 4,521 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cushing at the 95th percentile, close to its 94th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
81.6% of Cushing's 4,521 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 18.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Cushing compares
Cushing's 94th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 70th ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cushing ranks 2,018 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,779 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 254 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cushing
At the 94th percentile nationally, Cushing 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
Cushing's 81.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Cushing's 94th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cushing, see the exposure-zones guide.