Newkirk, OK
How exposed is Newkirk to wildfire?
Newkirk's 1,570 buildings earn a 83rd-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Newkirk's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 80th percentile nationally.
Newkirk's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 90.5% of Newkirk's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Newkirk against the rest of the country
Newkirk's 83rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 27th ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 55 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newkirk ranks 5,425 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,884 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 607 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Newkirk and the insurance market
Newkirk's 83rd-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 Newkirk
With 90.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Newkirk gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Newkirk's figures come from
Newkirk's 83rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Newkirk's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.