Viola, ID
Viola wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Viola at the 67th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 119 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Viola at the 63rd national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Viola rates 69.8% Minimal exposure against just 24.4% Direct and 5.9% Indirect — of 119 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Viola compares
Viola's 67th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 33rd ranking inside Idaho does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 34 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Viola ranks 10,427 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,183 by building count (1 is largest). Within Idaho alone, it ranks 157 of 232 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Idaho on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Viola's 67th-percentile, 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
Viola's 69.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Viola's 67th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Viola, see the exposure-zones guide.