Sentinel, OK
How exposed is Sentinel to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sentinel at the 58th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 665 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sentinel's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 54th percentile nationally.
Sentinel's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 83.2% of Sentinel's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 16.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Sentinel against the rest of the country
Inside Oklahoma, Sentinel sits at just the 8th percentile even though it scores 58th 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, Sentinel ranks 13,154 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,012 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 769 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sentinel
Sentinel's elevated wildfire rating (58th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 83.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Sentinel 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
Sentinel's 58th-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 Sentinel, see the exposure-zones guide.