Flint Creek, OK
How exposed is Flint Creek to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Flint Creek lands at the 90th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 369 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 Flint Creek at the 92nd percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
Where Flint Creek's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Flint Creek: 89.2% of its 369 buildings, versus 10.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Flint Creek ranks
Flint Creek ranks lower within Oklahoma (48th percentile statewide) than its 90th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Flint Creek ranks 3,153 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,890 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 437 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Flint Creek and the insurance market
Flint Creek's very high rating (90th 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 Flint Creek
With 89.2% of Flint Creek 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 Flint Creek's 3,153-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Flint Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.