Monroe, WI
Monroe, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Monroe's 5,389 buildings earn a 22nd-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Monroe's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 22nd percentile nationally.
Where Monroe's buildings actually sit
Only 4.7% of Monroe's 5,389 buildings carry Direct exposure and 4.1% carry Indirect; the remaining 91.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 5,389 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Monroe against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Monroe's 22nd national percentile and its 36th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Monroe ranks 24,728 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,204 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 514 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Monroe and the insurance market
Monroe's moderate rating (22nd 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
With 91.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Monroe gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Monroe's 22nd-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 Monroe, see the exposure-zones guide.