Indianola (Delaware), OK
Indianola (Delaware) wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Indianola (Delaware) at the 91st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 37 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Indianola (Delaware) at the 93rd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Indianola (Delaware)'s buildings actually sit
37 buildings are counted in Indianola (Delaware), and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Indianola (Delaware) ranks
Inside Oklahoma, Indianola (Delaware) sits at just the 52nd percentile even though it scores 91st 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, Indianola (Delaware) ranks 2,837 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,242 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 393 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Indianola (Delaware)
Indianola (Delaware)'s 91st-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 Indianola (Delaware)
Indianola (Delaware)'s 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Indianola (Delaware)'s figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Indianola (Delaware)'s 2,837-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Indianola (Delaware)'s dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.