Viola, KS
Viola, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Viola at the 9th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 128 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Viola at the 7th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Viola's buildings actually sit
Most of Viola's buildings (81.3% of 128) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Viola compares
There's little gap between Viola's 9th national percentile and its 0th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Viola ranks 28,584 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,799 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 720 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Viola and the insurance market
Viola's low rating (9th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Viola's 81.3% 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 9th-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.