Mead, OK
Mead, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mead lands at the 77th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 158 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 Mead at the 78th percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
Mead's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 79.1% of Mead's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 20.9% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 125 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Mead compares
Mead's 77th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 16th 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, Mead ranks 7,351 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,544 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 703 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Mead and the insurance market
Mead's 77th-percentile, 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.
Hardening a home in Mead
Mead's 79.1% 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
Mead's 77th-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 Mead, see the exposure-zones guide.