Nescatunga, OK
How exposed is Nescatunga to wildfire?
USFS scores Nescatunga at the 96th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 173 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Nescatunga at the 95th percentile, close to its 96th-percentile risk score.
Nescatunga's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Nescatunga's buildings (90.8%) 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.
Where Nescatunga ranks
There's little gap between Nescatunga's 96th national percentile and its 88th percentile inside Oklahoma, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nescatunga ranks 1,175 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,912 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 100 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Nescatunga and the insurance market
Nescatunga's very high rating (96th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Nescatunga's 90.8% 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
Nescatunga's 96th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Nescatunga, see the exposure-zones guide.