Konawa, OK
Konawa wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Konawa lands at the 93rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 910 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 Konawa at the 94th percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Konawa (66% of 910 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 34% sit in the Direct zone.
How Konawa compares
Konawa's 93rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 67th ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 26 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Konawa ranks 2,112 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,642 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 277 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Konawa
Konawa'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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 66% of Konawa's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Konawa's 2,112-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Konawa, see the exposure-zones guide.