Sayre, OK
Sayre wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sayre lands at the 95th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 2,108 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sayre at the 95th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 76.4% of Sayre's 2,108 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 23.5% Direct and 0.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Sayre compares
Inside Oklahoma, Sayre sits at just the 78th percentile even though it scores 95th 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, Sayre ranks 1,611 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,173 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 181 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Sayre and the insurance market
At the 95th percentile nationally, Sayre carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Sayre
Sayre's 76.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sayre's 1,611-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sayre, see the exposure-zones guide.