Watts, OK
Watts, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Watts at the 90th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 144 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Watts at the 92nd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Watts's buildings actually sit
68.1% of Watts's 144 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 98 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 31.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Watts against the rest of the country
Inside Oklahoma, Watts sits at just the 47th 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, Watts ranks 3,221 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,130 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 445 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Watts
Watts'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.
Hardening a home in Watts
With 68.1% of Watts 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.
Where Watts's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 144 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Watts. The exposure-zones guide covers what Watts's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.