Durant, OK
How exposed is Durant to wildfire?
USFS scores Durant at the 80th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 8,524 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Durant at the 81st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Durant's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Durant's buildings (54.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 8,524 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Durant against the rest of the country
Durant's 80th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 20th ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 60 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Durant ranks 6,405 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,947 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 670 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Durant and the insurance market
Durant'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.
Hardening a home in Durant
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Durant (54.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Durant's figures come from
Durant's 80th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Durant's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.