Flute Springs, OK
Flute Springs wildfire risk explained
Flute Springs sits at the 94th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 111 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Flute Springs at the 96th percentile, close to its 94th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 100% of Flute Springs's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 111 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Flute Springs ranks
Flute Springs ranks lower within Oklahoma (73rd percentile statewide) than its 94th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Flute Springs ranks 1,894 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,602 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 224 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Flute Springs
Flute Springs's 94th-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.
Hardening a home in Flute Springs
Flute Springs's 100% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Flute Springs's 1,894-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Flute Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.