Sand Springs, TX
Sand Springs, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sand Springs at the 90th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 716 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sand Springs at the 90th percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Sand Springs's 716 counted buildings, 52.4% 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.
Where Sand Springs ranks
Sand Springs's risk sits at a similar level relative to Texas (84th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (90th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sand Springs ranks 3,072 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,508 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 283 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sand Springs
At the 90th 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 52.4% of Sand Springs in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Sand Springs's figures come from
Sand Springs's 90th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sand Springs's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.