Lost City, OK
How exposed is Lost City to wildfire?
Lost City sits at the 95th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 646 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lost City at the 96th percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Lost City's 646 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.
How Lost City compares
Inside Oklahoma, Lost City sits at just the 77th percentile even though it scores 95th 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, Lost City ranks 1,710 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,250 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 194 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 95th percentile nationally, Lost City carries the very 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.
Hardening a home in Lost City
With 100% of Lost City in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 646 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lost City. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lost City, see the exposure-zones guide.