Wauhillau, OK
Wauhillau wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wauhillau at the 95th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 351 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wauhillau at the 97th percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
Where Wauhillau's buildings actually sit
Of Wauhillau's 351 counted buildings, 99.7% 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.
Wauhillau against the rest of the country
Wauhillau ranks lower within Oklahoma (78th percentile statewide) than its 95th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wauhillau ranks 1,679 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,288 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 191 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Wauhillau's 95th-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 Wauhillau
Because Direct exposure dominates in Wauhillau (99.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Wauhillau's 95th-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 Wauhillau, see the exposure-zones guide.