West Monroe, LA
West Monroe wildfire risk explained
West Monroe's 6,269 buildings earn a 33rd-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, West Monroe's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 34th percentile nationally.
West Monroe's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 96.3% of West Monroe's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1.9% Direct and 1.8% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 6,269 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where West Monroe ranks
West Monroe scores 33rd nationally and 31st within Louisiana — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Monroe ranks 21,203 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,766 by building count (1 is largest). Within Louisiana alone, it ranks 335 of 488 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Louisiana on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
West Monroe's moderate rating (33rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
West Monroe's 96.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where West Monroe's figures come from
West Monroe's 33rd-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 West Monroe's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.