West Siloam Springs, OK
West Siloam Springs wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts West Siloam Springs at the 90th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 785 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Siloam Springs at the 92nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 87.3% of West Siloam Springs's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 12.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 685 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where West Siloam Springs ranks
Inside Oklahoma, West Siloam Springs sits at just the 46th percentile even though it scores 90th 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, West Siloam Springs ranks 3,252 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,773 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oklahoma alone, it ranks 448 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
West Siloam Springs's 90th-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 87.3% of West Siloam 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind West Siloam Springs's 3,252-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond West Siloam Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.