Pond Creek, OK
Pond Creek wildfire risk explained
Pond Creek's 704 buildings earn a 41st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pond Creek at the 37th percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
Where Pond Creek's buildings actually sit
Most of Pond Creek's buildings (94.6% of 704) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Pond Creek compares
Pond Creek's 41st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 3rd ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 38 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pond Creek ranks 18,542 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,615 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 808 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pond Creek
Pond Creek's elevated wildfire rating (41st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Pond Creek
With 94.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Pond Creek gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Pond Creek's 41st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pond Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.