Taft, OK
Taft wildfire risk explained
Taft sits at the 84th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 220 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Taft's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 85th percentile nationally.
Taft's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Taft's 220 counted buildings, 84.1% 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 Taft compares
Taft ranks lower within Oklahoma (28th percentile statewide) than its 84th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Taft ranks 5,206 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,134 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 597 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Taft
Taft's 84th-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 84.1% of Taft 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 220 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Taft. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Taft, see the exposure-zones guide.