Piedmont, OK
Piedmont wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Piedmont at the 78th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 4,031 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Piedmont's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 76th percentile nationally.
Where Piedmont's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Piedmont: 72.5% of its 4,031 buildings, versus 7% Indirect and 20.5% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Piedmont against the rest of the country
Piedmont's 78th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 17th ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 61 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Piedmont ranks 6,906 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,214 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 690 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Piedmont's 78th-percentile, 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 Direct exposure dominates in Piedmont (72.5%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Piedmont's 6,906-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Piedmont, see the exposure-zones guide.