Hastings, OK
How exposed is Hastings to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hastings lands at the 90th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 166 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 Hastings at the 89th percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
57.2% of Hastings's 166 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 95 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 42.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0.6% are Minimal.
How Hastings compares
Inside Oklahoma, Hastings sits at just the 49th percentile even though it scores 90th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hastings ranks 3,094 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,189 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 428 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hastings
Hastings'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hastings's 57.2% 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 Hastings's 3,094-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hastings, see the exposure-zones guide.