Baron, OK
Baron wildfire risk explained
Baron's 261 buildings earn a 93rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Baron at the 96th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
261 buildings are counted in Baron, 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.
How Baron compares
Baron's 93rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 67th ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 26 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Baron ranks 2,108 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,805 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 273 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Baron and the insurance market
At the 93rd percentile nationally, Baron carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Baron
With 100% of Baron 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Baron's 2,108-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Baron, see the exposure-zones guide.