Viola, NY
Viola wildfire risk explained
Viola's 1,562 buildings earn a 31st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Viola at the 30th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Viola's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 47.8% of Viola's 1,562 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 52.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Viola against the rest of the country
Viola's 65th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 31st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Viola ranks 21,912 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,916 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 449 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Viola and the insurance market
Viola's moderate wildfire rating (31st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 52.2% of Viola outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Viola's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,562 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Viola. The exposure-zones guide covers what Viola's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.