Snake Creek, OK
Snake Creek, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Snake Creek at the 91st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 192 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Snake Creek at the 93rd percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
Snake Creek's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 100% of Snake Creek's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 192 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Snake Creek against the rest of the country
Inside Oklahoma, Snake Creek sits at just the 53rd percentile even though it scores 91st 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, Snake Creek ranks 2,842 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,172 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 398 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Snake Creek
Snake Creek's 91st-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Snake Creek'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Snake Creek's 2,842-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Snake Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.