Claremore, OK
Claremore wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Claremore lands at the 83rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 8,365 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 Claremore at the 85th percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
Claremore's building exposure, zone by zone
44.3% of Claremore's 8,365 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 19.1% Direct and 36.6% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 8,365 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Claremore compares
Inside Oklahoma, Claremore sits at just the 28th percentile even though it scores 83rd 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, Claremore ranks 5,266 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,990 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 599 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Claremore
At the 83rd percentile nationally, Claremore 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 Claremore
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Claremore (44.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,365 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Claremore. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Claremore, see the exposure-zones guide.