The other ledger for Oklahoma: 23 rural hospitals modeled vulnerable to closure with 70% of them operating in the red, an 84,125-home shortage at the very bottom of the housing market, food insecurity at 16.9% of households (sixth in the nation), and two utilities projecting multi-gigawatt power shortfalls on data-centre load. And one genuine turnaround, reported exactly as measured: the state-maintained bridge fleet, once nearly the nation's worst, now ranks fourth-best. Every figure is sourced, dated, and labeled — counted, modeled, or assessed.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Hospitals — margins before closures. Oklahoma's 23 vulnerable hospitals (Chartis model, 2025) are printed beside the 70%-in-the-red margin figure and the hard count of eight closures/conversions since 2005. A separate Sheps Center screen put 21 Oklahoma hospitals at particular risk on a different methodology; it is disclosed on the Chartis record, not blended with it.
Food — two instruments, never blended. The 16.9% and 6.4% figures are USDA household-survey rates (2022–2024 average); the child figure is Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap modelling for 2024. They measure different populations with different methods and appear as separate records. USDA has discontinued its food-security survey series, so the survey vintage printed here may be the last directly comparable one.
Power — forecasts, printed as forecasts. PSO's 3,124 MW and OG&E's 3,459 MW figures are the utilities' own projections in Corporation Commission proceedings, reported by The Frontier / The Oklahoman in December 2025, each carrying its 'unless new resources are acquired' condition. The 779 MW of already-contracted PSO large load is printed beside them so readers can separate signed load from projected load. Both utilities' generation responses are private capital programmes and appear on neither page as projects.
Bridges — both truths, different fleets. TRIP's 7%-poor covers every bridge in Oklahoma; ODOT's 0.52% structurally deficient covers only the ~6,800 bridges ODOT maintains. Printing either alone would mislead — the state-system turnaround (from ~1,200 deficient bridges and a 49th-place ranking two decades ago) is real, and so is the off-system remainder.
Dams — no condition count invented. No current statewide poor/unsatisfactory condition total for Oklahoma dams was published in the sources retrieved, so none is printed. The category documents what is published: 446 high-hazard dams, a 4,600-plus-dam state inventory, and 70% of the watershed flood-control fleet past its 50-year design life as of 2021.
Broadband vintages. The $797M allocation (2023) was sized against a far larger unserved map; the 40,509 locations in the NTIA-approved April 2026 plan are the remainder after earlier programmes. Both are printed with their years so neither is mistaken for the other.
Traffic. TRIP figures are metro figures (Oklahoma City hours; a combined Tulsa per-driver burden, labeled as combined). No honest statewide congestion total is published for Oklahoma, and none is printed.