Welling, OK
Welling wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Welling at the 94th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 791 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Welling at the 96th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Welling's building exposure, zone by zone
791 buildings are counted in Welling, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Welling against the rest of the country
Welling's 94th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 71st ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 23 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Welling ranks 1,962 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,721 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 245 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Welling and the insurance market
Welling's very high rating (94th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Welling
Welling's 100% 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 Welling's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Welling's 1,962-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Welling's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.