Pittsburg, OK
How exposed is Pittsburg to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pittsburg at the 98th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 190 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pittsburg's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 99th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Pittsburg: 53.2% of its 190 buildings, versus 46.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Pittsburg ranks
Pittsburg's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oklahoma (98th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (98th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pittsburg ranks 577 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,256 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 15 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Pittsburg and the insurance market
Pittsburg's 98th-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 Pittsburg
With 53.2% of Pittsburg 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 190 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pittsburg. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pittsburg, see the exposure-zones guide.