Kiefer, OK
Kiefer, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kiefer at the 91st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,181 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kiefer at the 93rd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Kiefer: 59.7% of its 1,181 buildings, versus 22.9% Indirect and 17.4% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Kiefer compares
Kiefer's 91st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 51st ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 39 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kiefer ranks 2,902 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,763 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 405 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Kiefer and the insurance market
Kiefer's very high rating (91st 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 Kiefer
With 59.7% of Kiefer in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kiefer's 2,902-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kiefer, see the exposure-zones guide.