Mountain View, OK
How exposed is Mountain View to wildfire?
Mountain View sits at the 87th 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 688 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 Mountain View at the 86th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
Mountain View's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Mountain View's buildings (92.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Mountain View against the rest of the country
Inside Oklahoma, Mountain View sits at just the 37th percentile even though it scores 87th 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, Mountain View ranks 4,047 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,782 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 525 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Mountain View and the insurance market
Mountain View's 87th-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.
Hardening a home in Mountain View
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Mountain View (92.3% 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 Mountain View's 4,047-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mountain View, see the exposure-zones guide.