Porter, OK
How exposed is Porter to wildfire?
USFS scores Porter at the 87th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 454 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Porter's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 89th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 50.4% of Porter's 454 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 49.6% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Porter ranks
Porter's 87th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 37th ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 50 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Porter ranks 4,100 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,200 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 529 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Porter
Porter's 87th-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
Because 50.4% of Porter's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Porter's 4,100-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Porter, see the exposure-zones guide.