Salina, OK
Salina wildfire risk explained
Salina sits at the 88th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 668 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Salina at the 90th percentile, close to its 88th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
72.3% of Salina's 668 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 27.1% Direct and 0.6% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Salina against the rest of the country
Inside Oklahoma, Salina sits at just the 40th percentile even though it scores 88th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Salina ranks 3,792 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,983 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 501 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Salina and the insurance market
Salina's very high rating (88th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 72.3% of Salina'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
Salina's 88th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Salina, see the exposure-zones guide.