Newcastle, OK
Newcastle, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Newcastle's 6,988 buildings earn a 87th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Newcastle at the 87th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Newcastle's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 77.5% of Newcastle's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 22.5% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 5,416 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most. At 6,988 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Newcastle compares
Newcastle ranks lower within Oklahoma (36th percentile statewide) than its 87th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newcastle ranks 4,201 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,472 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 536 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Newcastle
Newcastle'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 77.5% of Newcastle 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Newcastle's 4,201-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Newcastle, see the exposure-zones guide.