Lawrence Creek, OK
Lawrence Creek wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lawrence Creek lands at the 93rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 95 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lawrence Creek at the 95th 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
Of Lawrence Creek's 95 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Lawrence Creek compares
Lawrence Creek'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 27 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lawrence Creek ranks 2,144 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,287 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 282 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lawrence Creek
Lawrence Creek'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 Lawrence Creek
Lawrence Creek'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lawrence Creek's 2,144-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lawrence Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.