Denton, MT
Denton wildfire risk explained
Denton's 303 buildings earn a 29th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Denton at the 26th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Denton's buildings actually sit
Most of Denton's buildings (75.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Denton compares
Denton's 29th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 5th ranking inside Montana does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 23 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Denton ranks 22,471 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,541 by building count (1 is largest). Within Montana alone, it ranks 450 of 475 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Montana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Denton
At the 29th national percentile, Denton rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Denton
Because 75.9% of Denton'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 303 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Denton. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Denton, see the exposure-zones guide.