Wewoka, OK
Wewoka, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Wewoka at the 97th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 2,114 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wewoka at the 98th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Wewoka's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 68% of Wewoka's 2,114 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 32% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Wewoka ranks
Wewoka's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oklahoma (93rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (97th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wewoka ranks 984 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,155 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 59 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Wewoka and the insurance market
Wewoka's 97th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Wewoka's 68% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Wewoka's 97th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wewoka, see the exposure-zones guide.