Perkins, OK
Perkins, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Perkins sits at the 89th 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 1,644 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 Perkins at the 91st percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 68.5% of Perkins's 1,644 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 31.2% Direct and 0.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Perkins ranks
Inside Oklahoma, Perkins sits at just the 45th percentile even though it scores 89th 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, Perkins ranks 3,382 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,608 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 464 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Perkins and the insurance market
Perkins's 89th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Perkins's 68.5% 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.
Where Perkins's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Perkins's 3,382-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Perkins's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.