Hugo, OK
How exposed is Hugo to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hugo lands at the 80th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 3,361 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 Hugo at the 82nd percentile, close to its 80th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
63.2% of Hugo's 3,361 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 35.3% Direct and 1.6% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Hugo compares
Inside Oklahoma, Hugo sits at just the 21st percentile even though it scores 80th 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, Hugo ranks 6,280 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,970 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 663 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Hugo and the insurance market
Hugo's 80th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Hugo (63.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hugo's 6,280-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hugo, see the exposure-zones guide.