Condon, MT
How exposed is Condon to wildfire?
USFS scores Condon at the 98th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 659 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 Condon at the 99th percentile, close to its 98th-percentile risk score.
Condon's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Condon: 100% of its 659 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Condon compares
There's little gap between Condon's 98th national percentile and its 99th percentile inside Montana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Condon ranks 541 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,077 by building count (1 is largest). Within Montana alone, it ranks 7 of 475 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Montana on its state page.
Condon and the insurance market
Condon's 98th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Condon (100%), 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
Condon's 98th-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 Condon, see the exposure-zones guide.