Broken Bow, OK
How exposed is Broken Bow to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Broken Bow lands at the 80th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,357 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Broken Bow at the 83rd percentile, close to its 80th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 61% of Broken Bow's 2,357 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 39% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Broken Bow against the rest of the country
Inside Oklahoma, Broken Bow sits at just the 19th percentile even though it scores 80th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Broken Bow ranks 6,437 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,591 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 671 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Broken Bow and the insurance market
Broken Bow's high rating (80th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 61% of Broken Bow's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,357 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Broken Bow. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Broken Bow, see the exposure-zones guide.