Washita, OK
Washita, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Washita at the 91st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 102 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Washita at the 91st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Washita's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 62.8% of Washita's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 37.3% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 64 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Washita against the rest of the country
Washita's 91st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 50th ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 41 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Washita ranks 3,002 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,972 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 420 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Washita and the insurance market
Washita'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.
Hardening a home in Washita
Washita's 62.8% 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.
Where Washita's figures come from
Washita's 91st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Washita's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.