Monroe, WA
Monroe, WA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Monroe lands at the 17th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 5,838 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Monroe's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 19th percentile nationally.
Monroe's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Monroe's buildings (89.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 5,838 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
Monroe scores 17th nationally and 24th within Washington — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Monroe ranks 26,114 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,952 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 480 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Monroe
At the 17th national percentile, Monroe rates low 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
Because 89.5% of Monroe's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Monroe's figures come from
Monroe's 17th-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 Monroe's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.