Viola, AR
Viola wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Viola at the 80th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 312 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Viola at the 83rd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Viola's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 80.5% of Viola's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 19.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 251 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Viola ranks
There's little gap between Viola's 80th national percentile and its 81st percentile inside Arkansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Viola ranks 6,264 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,307 by building count (1 is largest). Within Arkansas alone, it ranks 118 of 614 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Arkansas on its state page.
Viola and the insurance market
Viola's very high rating (80th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Viola's 80.5% 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.
Where Viola's figures come from
Viola's 80th-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 Viola's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.