Pocola, OK
How exposed is Pocola to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pocola lands at the 90th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 3,044 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pocola at the 94th percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
Pocola's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Pocola: 88.4% of its 3,044 buildings, versus 10.4% Indirect and 1.3% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Pocola compares
Inside Oklahoma, Pocola sits at just the 50th percentile even though it scores 90th 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, Pocola ranks 3,031 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,363 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 421 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pocola
Pocola's very high rating (90th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Pocola
With 88.4% of Pocola 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 3,044 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pocola. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pocola, see the exposure-zones guide.