Heavener, OK
How exposed is Heavener to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Heavener lands at the 93rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,696 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Heavener's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 95th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Heavener's buildings (58.8%) 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.
How Heavener compares
Inside Oklahoma, Heavener sits at just the 62nd percentile even though it scores 93rd 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, Heavener ranks 2,302 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,433 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 312 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Heavener and the insurance market
Heavener's 93rd-percentile, very 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.
Hardening a home in Heavener
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Heavener (58.8% 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 1,696 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Heavener. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Heavener, see the exposure-zones guide.