Oklahoma City carries a compact CMBS book — $399 million across 27 loans — but the distress rate on it is anything but small. As of July 2026, 20.5% of the balance sits in special servicing or 60-plus days delinquent, and the filed record has been rising. For a market this size, a single sour credit moves the needle hard, and the headline rate reflects that concentration rather than a broad-based unwind. The median DSCR across the book still reads 1.66, so the strain is uneven rather than systemic.
The calendar is where the weight sits. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2029, when $180 million — 45% of the book — comes due. That single vintage dwarfs the near-term slate and frames the refinancing question for this metro well down the road. Nearer maturities are light by comparison, keeping the immediate pressure modest even as the 2029 wall builds.
On the ground, the past year brought four distress events — one store closure and three layoff notices — a thin but non-zero signal against a local unemployment rate of 4.3%, up 1.1 points year over year. Among the metro's banks, four are flagged distressed and nine more sit in early-warning territory. The picture is a small book with a big headline number and a maturity concentration that keeps 2029 firmly in view.
Oklahoma City presents a mixed distress picture. Store closures are not elevated — the metro ranks 128th of 392 by closure count (0.55 closures per 100,000 jobs, 298th by rate), so retail failure is not the story here. Layoff notices (WARN) cannot be read as a signal: the measurement state is not measurable because 0% of this geography's notices report a headcount, so the low reading is an absence of measurement, not an absence of distress.
The pressure sits on the capital side. Bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line is elevated at 8.75% — a share of CRE lent into the metro that is noncurrent — ranking 26th of 393 by count and 84th by rate, with $2,144.0 million over the line (only 19.6% of these dollars require no allocation). Securitized loans in special servicing are also elevated at 20.55% of the securitized balance read here, ranking 28th of 335 by count and 19th by rate, though the figure is a FLOOR measured over 50.0% of special-servicing rows. Both bank and CMBS legs are hot, while store closures are quiet — a disagreement pattern that points to bank stress without a visible tenant cause, likely construction or rate resets rather than vacancy, and securitized distress without retail failure, suggesting an office story. Of six pairs, 1 is both elevated, 0 both quiet, 2 disagree, and 3 are unadjudicated because a side is blind.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
3 closures | 0.55 per 100k jobs | 128 of 392 | 298 of 392 | quiet trailing 365 days to today
|
| layoff notices (WARN) workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment |
3 notices | — | — | — | cannot be read
not measurable trailing 365 days to today
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| bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line share of the CRE lent into this metro that sits at a lender over the blended-noncurrent line |
$2.14bn | 8.75% | 26 of 393 | 84 of 393 | elevated
allocated 2026-03-31
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| securitized loans in special servicing share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing |
6 loan records | 20.55% | 28 of 335 | 19 of 335 | elevated
floor 2026-07-29
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In Oklahoma City, OK, the elevated distress signals are concentrated in credit channels. The bank-distressed-CRE reading shows USD2.14bn in distressed lender CRE and USD3.6bn in distressed bank assets, with 19.6% of bank CRE allocated and 6.4% of bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile. The CMBS special-servicing signal is also elevated, with USD82.0mm in special-servicing UPB and a 20.5% share of metro UPB. A forward-looking reading—such as retail store closures or WARN notices over the next year—is unavailable from the given figures, so that signal cannot be read.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bancfirst OK | 44.8% | 160% total 216%
|
🔒 | 0.92% |
| The First National Bank And Trust Co., Chickasha, Oklahoma OK | 100.0% | 149% total 213%
|
🔒 | 2.05% |
| International Bank Of Commerce OK | 47.3% | 127% total 173%
|
🔒 | 0.83% |
| Arvest Bank AR | 6.4% | 213% total 265%
|
🔒 | 0.47% |
| Prosperity Bank TX | 2.1% | 171% total 228%
|
🔒 | 0.18% |
| F&m Bank OK | 78.9% | 169% total 258%
|
🔒 | 0.77% |
| Armstrong Bank OK | 27.6% | 204% total 272%
|
🔒 | 0.09% |
| Bank 7 OK | 48.6% | 252% total 301%
|
🔒 | 0.54% |
| Intrust Bank, National Association KS | 6.0% | 189% total 251%
|
🔒 | 0.54% |
| First National Bank Of Oklahoma OK | 56.2% | 236% total 392%
|
🔒 | 1.96% |
| Liberty National Bank OK | 28.9% | 214% total 300%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| All America Bank OK | 65.6% | 225% total 303%
|
🔒 | 6.81% |
| Gateway First Bank OK | 13.6% | 214% total 229%
|
🔒 | 3.37% |
| First United Bank And Trust Company OK | 8.4% | 280% total 344%
|
🔒 | 1.37% |
| Great Plains National Bank OK | 24.6% | 243% total 333%
|
🔒 | 2.30% |
| Fnb Community Bank OK | 100.0% | 257% total 324%
|
🔒 | 3.85% |
| Sooner State Bank OK | 91.3% | 242% total 297%
|
🔒 | 0.10% |
| Mcclain Bank OK | 100.0% | 223% total 309%
|
🔒 | 0.12% |
| Vision Bank OK | 19.6% | 201% total 232%
|
🔒 | 2.81% |
| First Bank & Trust Co. OK | 16.8% | 224% total 276%
|
🔒 | 7.09% |
| Ynb OK | 100.0% | 243% total 310%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Great Nations Bank OK | 100.0% | 196% total 356%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First Liberty Bank OK | 96.1% | 288% total 352%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Frazer Bank OK | 15.2% | 166% total 235%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Mabrey Bank OK | 6.1% | 240% total 402%
|
🔒 | 0.51% |
| The City National Bank And Trust Company Of Lawton, Oklahoma OK | 14.2% | 273% total 315%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First National Bank And Trust Company Of Ardmore OK | 2.2% | 161% total 245%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| The Farmers Bank OK | 26.4% | 253% total 312%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Bank Of Commerce OK | 10.3% | 265% total 321%
|
🔒 | 0.41% |
| Prism Bank OK | 100.0% | 299% total 345%
|
🔒 | 0.05% |
| Shamrock Bank, N.a. OK | 1.5% | 227% total 287%
|
🔒 | 0.25% |
| The Bank Of The West OK | 2.3% | 297% total 331%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First Enterprise Bank OK | 100.0% | 339% total 468%
|
🔒 | 9.21% |
| Valliance Bank OK | 81.0% | 380% total 534%
|
🔒 | 0.86% |
| Kirkpatrick Bank OK | 70.7% | 384% total 449%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First Fidelity Bank OK | 66.8% | 308% total 462%
|
🔒 | 0.49% |
| Legacy Bank OK | 46.9% | 300% total 381%
|
🔒 | 4.63% |
| Sovereign Bank OK | 31.5% | 389% total 478%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Interbank OK | 17.7% | 451% total 470%
|
🔒 | 2.57% |
| Regent Bank OK | 15.4% | 300% total 425%
|
🔒 | 3.16% |
| Fidelity Bank, National Association KS | 7.9% | 323% total 412%
|
🔒 | 0.62% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Enterprise Bank | $97M | 339% total 468%
|
9.21% | 🔒 |
| All America Bank | $211M | 225% total 303%
|
6.81% | 🔒 |
| Frontier State Bank | $325M | 416% total 468%
|
5.94% | 🔒 |
| Fnb Community Bank | $184M | 257% total 324%
|
3.85% | 🔒 |
| Midfirst Bank | $9.3B | 161% total 226%
|
1.34% | 🔒 |
| International Bank Of Commerce | $461M | 127% total 173%
|
0.83% | 🔒 |
| Bank 7 | $834M | 252% total 301%
|
0.54% | 🔒 |
| Mcclain Bank | $86M | 223% total 309%
|
0.12% | 🔒 |
Oklahoma City, OK shows clear capacity in its lending environment to refinance maturing CRE debt. The metro’s maturing balance is $75.6mm, against a bank room of $1.38bn after committed draws, producing a wall to room of 0.05 — well below the median reading. This slack band ranking places Oklahoma City at 218 of 270 of metros ranked, counting from the most strained, indicating the strain is modest. Qualifying banks number 41, with 17 banks excluded here, and the room reflects what regional and community banks could still write under the SR 06-26 concentration line. While the committed draws of $1.49bn reduce the available room from $2.29bn to $1.38bn, the maturing wall remains small relative to that buffer, suggesting the banks have ample headroom to absorb the $75.6mm maturing obligation. The distressed share of 20.5% adds some caution, but the overall proxy for lending footprint supports refinancing capacity.
In Oklahoma City, OK, over the past 365 days, on-the-ground commercial real estate activity has been limited, with no CRE-likely bankruptcy filings and 0 jobs affected. There were 3 store closures and 3 WARN notices, but the reading for jobs affected is a floor, as notices with no headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs.