Gage, OK
How exposed is Gage to wildfire?
Gage's 378 buildings earn a 98th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Gage at the 98th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
87.6% of Gage's 378 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 12.4% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Gage compares
There's little gap between Gage's 98th national percentile and its 96th percentile inside Oklahoma, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gage ranks 768 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,699 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 34 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gage
Gage's 98th-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 Gage
Gage's 87.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Gage's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 378 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Gage. The exposure-zones guide covers what Gage's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.