Muldrow, OK
Muldrow wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Muldrow at the 96th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,934 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Muldrow at the 98th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Muldrow's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Muldrow: 54.8% of its 1,934 buildings, versus 45.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Muldrow compares
Muldrow's risk sits at a similar level relative to Oklahoma (85th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (96th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Muldrow ranks 1,300 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,668 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 127 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Muldrow and the insurance market
Muldrow's 96th-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
Muldrow's 54.8% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,934 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Muldrow. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Muldrow, see the exposure-zones guide.