Burns Flat, Oklahoma.
Typical home $84,691 (+3.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$272 (+157%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,494 +3%
- $82,197$84,691 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,746 +51%
- $55,946$84,691 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Burns Flat$445
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Burns Flat, OK rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burns Flat, Washita County, Oklahoma
Burns Flat is a town of 1,948 people in Washita County. Half its households earn more than $45,446 a year and half less, against $63,501 across Washita County; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Washita County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Burns Flat is a small town in Washita County, in western Oklahoma. Residents are somewhat younger than in many small towns, and household incomes run well below the county's, with more people living in poverty than is typical. Homes here are inexpensive, and winters are cool but not severe, with summers that turn very hot by July.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, farming, and banking, insurance and property. Across Washita County, the largest workplaces include Western Technology Center, a career school, and the school districts of Cordell and Burns Flat-Dill City. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a bit longer than a short hop across town.
Things to do. Most outdoor places are a longer drive away. Foss State Park, a protected area built around Foss Reservoir, is the natural choice for water and shoreline. Washita National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area for those who like watching birds and wildlife, and Sayre City Park is a town park for a more ordinary afternoon outside.
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- 672households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washita County had 1,936 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 71°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bessie 4WNW Mesonet weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washita County
- Western Technology CenterCareer school155
- Cordell SchoolsSchool district97FTE
- Burns Flat-dill City SchoolsSchool district81FTE
- Canute SchoolsSchool district58FTE
- Sentinel SchoolsSchool district53FTE
- Cordell Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital38FTE
- Bird EquipmentFermention tanks, heavy gauge metal tanks, manufacturing24
- Premium Aerospace Center OklahomaAirport passenger screening security services20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 44 people in all across the county; Burns Flat has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Burns Flat’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Washita County.
Burns Flat home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burns Flat$84,691
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Burns Flat4
Zip codes with a Burns Flat address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burns Flat — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.