Sparks, OK
Sparks, OK's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sparks's 134 buildings earn a 92nd-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sparks at the 94th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Sparks's buildings actually sit
73.1% of Sparks's 134 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 98 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 26.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Sparks compares
Sparks's 92nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 61st ranking inside Oklahoma does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 32 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sparks ranks 2,405 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,560 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 333 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
Sparks's 92nd-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
Sparks's 73.1% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sparks's 2,405-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sparks, see the exposure-zones guide.