Notchietown, OK
Notchietown wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Notchietown lands at the 94th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 306 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Notchietown at the 96th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Notchietown's buildings actually sit
Of Notchietown's 306 counted buildings, 99.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0.3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Notchietown ranks
Notchietown's 94th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 75th ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 20 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Notchietown ranks 1,835 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,483 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 217 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Notchietown and the insurance market
At the 94th percentile nationally, Notchietown carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Notchietown
With 99.7% of Notchietown 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.
Where Notchietown's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Notchietown's 1,835-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Notchietown's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.