Gideon, OK
Gideon, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Gideon lands at the 96th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 214 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 Gideon at the 97th percentile, close to its 96th-percentile risk score.
Gideon's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Gideon's 214 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Gideon ranks
Gideon's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oklahoma (82nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (96th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gideon ranks 1,425 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,341 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 149 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Gideon and the insurance market
Gideon's 96th-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
Gideon'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
Gideon's 96th-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 Gideon, see the exposure-zones guide.