Sequoyah, OK
Sequoyah, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Sequoyah at the 83rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 543 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sequoyah's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 85th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
97.6% of Sequoyah's 543 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 530 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 2.4% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Sequoyah against the rest of the country
Inside Oklahoma, Sequoyah sits at just the 28th percentile even though it scores 83rd 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, Sequoyah ranks 5,303 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,673 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 601 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Sequoyah and the insurance market
Sequoyah's 83rd-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.
Hardening a home in Sequoyah
Sequoyah's 97.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Sequoyah's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sequoyah's 5,303-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sequoyah's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.