Dale, OK
Dale wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Dale lands at the 83rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 154 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 Dale at the 83rd percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
Dale's building exposure, zone by zone
84.4% of Dale's 154 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 15.6% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Dale against the rest of the country
Inside Oklahoma, Dale sits at just the 27th percentile even though it scores 83rd 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, Dale ranks 5,521 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,722 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 613 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Dale and the insurance market
Dale's 83rd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 84.4% of Dale'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
Dale's 83rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Dale, see the exposure-zones guide.