Vanoss, OK
Vanoss wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Vanoss at the 96th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 121 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Vanoss's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 97th percentile nationally.
Where Vanoss's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Vanoss: 95% of its 121 buildings, versus 5% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Vanoss compares
Vanoss scores 96th nationally and 86th within Oklahoma — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vanoss ranks 1,269 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,122 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 122 of 834 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oklahoma on its state page.
Vanoss and the insurance market
Vanoss's 96th-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
With 95% of Vanoss 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Vanoss's 1,269-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Vanoss, see the exposure-zones guide.