Pickett, OK
Pickett, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pickett lands at the 95th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 531 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pickett at the 96th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pickett's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Pickett's 531 counted buildings, 97.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Pickett compares
Pickett's 95th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 79th ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 16 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pickett ranks 1,610 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,854 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 180 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pickett
Pickett's 95th-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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Pickett (97.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pickett's 1,610-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pickett, see the exposure-zones guide.