Shady Grove (Cherokee), OK
Shady Grove (Cherokee), OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Shady Grove (Cherokee) at the 96th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 456 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Shady Grove (Cherokee)'s burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 98th percentile nationally.
Where Shady Grove (Cherokee)'s buildings actually sit
Of Shady Grove (Cherokee)'s 456 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Shady Grove (Cherokee) compares
Shady Grove (Cherokee) scores 96th nationally and 87th within Oklahoma — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shady Grove (Cherokee) ranks 1,204 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,161 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 105 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shady Grove (Cherokee) and the insurance market
Shady Grove (Cherokee)'s 96th-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 Shady Grove (Cherokee)
Shady Grove (Cherokee)'s 100% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 456 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Shady Grove (Cherokee). For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Shady Grove (Cherokee), see the exposure-zones guide.