Sycamore, OK
How exposed is Sycamore to wildfire?
USFS scores Sycamore at the 90th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 84 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sycamore's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 92nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Sycamore: 100% of its 84 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Sycamore compares
Inside Oklahoma, Sycamore sits at just the 48th percentile even though it scores 90th 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, Sycamore ranks 3,155 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,740 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 439 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sycamore
Sycamore's 90th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 100% of Sycamore in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Sycamore's 90th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sycamore, see the exposure-zones guide.