Monson Center, MA
Monson Center, MA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Monson Center at the 31st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 949 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Monson Center at the 28th percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Monson Center's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Monson Center's 949 counted buildings, 50.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Monson Center ranks
Compare Monson Center's two percentiles: 81st within Massachusetts, only 31st nationally — a gap of 50 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Monson Center ranks 21,771 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,314 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 48 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Monson Center
At the 31st national percentile, Monson Center rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Monson Center (50.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Monson Center's 31st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Monson Center, see the exposure-zones guide.