Weleetka, OK
Weleetka, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Weleetka at the 98th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 577 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Weleetka at the 99th percentile, close to its 98th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Weleetka: 54.1% of its 577 buildings, versus 45.9% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Weleetka compares
Weleetka scores 98th nationally and 96th within Oklahoma — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Weleetka ranks 769 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,153 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 35 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Weleetka
Weleetka's 98th-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 54.1% of Weleetka 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 577 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Weleetka. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Weleetka, see the exposure-zones guide.