Empire City, OK
How exposed is Empire City to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Empire City at the 93rd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 585 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Empire City at the 93rd percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
Empire City's building exposure, zone by zone
98% of Empire City's 585 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 573 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 2.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Empire City ranks
Empire City's 93rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 66th ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 28 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Empire City ranks 2,179 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,034 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 285 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Empire City
Empire City's very high rating (93rd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Empire City's 98% 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
Empire City's 93rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Empire City, see the exposure-zones guide.