Sand Springs, OK
Sand Springs wildfire risk explained
Sand Springs's 9,332 buildings earn a 93rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sand Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 95th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Sand Springs's buildings (57.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 9,332 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Sand Springs ranks
Sand Springs ranks lower within Oklahoma (64th percentile statewide) than its 93rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sand Springs ranks 2,275 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,759 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 308 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sand Springs
At the 93rd percentile nationally, Sand Springs carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Sand Springs (57.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sand Springs's 2,275-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sand Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.