Monroe, LA
Monroe, LA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Monroe sits at the 46th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 19,747 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Monroe at the 48th percentile, close to its 46th-percentile risk score.
Where Monroe's buildings actually sit
Only 21% of Monroe's 19,747 buildings carry Direct exposure and 30.6% carry Indirect; the remaining 48.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 19,747 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Monroe compares
There's little gap between Monroe's 46th national percentile and its 50th percentile inside Louisiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Monroe ranks 16,928 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 720 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 248 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
Monroe and the insurance market
At the 46th national percentile, Monroe rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 48.4% of Monroe 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 Monroe's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Monroe's 16,928-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Monroe's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.