Wakita, OK
Wakita, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Wakita's 295 buildings earn a 57th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wakita at the 50th percentile, close to its 57th-percentile risk score.
Wakita's building exposure, zone by zone
Wakita rates 91.2% Minimal exposure against just 8.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 295 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Wakita against the rest of the country
Wakita ranks lower within Oklahoma (7th percentile statewide) than its 57th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wakita ranks 13,557 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,770 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 772 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Wakita and the insurance market
Wakita's elevated wildfire rating (57th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 91.2% of Wakita outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 295 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wakita. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wakita, see the exposure-zones guide.