Jenks, OK
How exposed is Jenks to wildfire?
USFS scores Jenks at the 78th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 9,528 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Jenks's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 80th percentile nationally.
Jenks's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 53.8% of Jenks's 9,528 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 27.4% Direct and 18.8% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 9,528 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Jenks compares
Jenks's 78th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 17th ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 61 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jenks ranks 6,942 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,710 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 692 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Jenks and the insurance market
At the 78th percentile nationally, Jenks carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Jenks's 53.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 9,528 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Jenks. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Jenks, see the exposure-zones guide.