Brockton, MT
How exposed is Brockton to wildfire?
USFS scores Brockton at the 80th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 146 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brockton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 81st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
146 buildings are counted in Brockton, and 75.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 24.7% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Brockton against the rest of the country
Inside Montana, Brockton sits at just the 53rd percentile even though it scores 80th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brockton ranks 6,241 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,029 by building count (1 is largest). Within Montana alone, it ranks 224 of 475 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Montana on its state page.
Brockton and the insurance market
Brockton's 80th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Brockton
Because 75.3% of Brockton'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brockton's 6,241-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Brockton, see the exposure-zones guide.