Burns Flat, OK
Burns Flat wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Burns Flat lands at the 68th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 753 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Burns Flat at the 64th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 7.6% of Burns Flat's 753 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 92.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Burns Flat against the rest of the country
Burns Flat ranks lower within Oklahoma (10th percentile statewide) than its 68th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Burns Flat ranks 10,029 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,092 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 747 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Burns Flat and the insurance market
Burns Flat's 68th-percentile, 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Burns Flat's 92.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Burns Flat's 10,029-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Burns Flat, see the exposure-zones guide.