Forest Hill Village, MT
How exposed is Forest Hill Village to wildfire?
Forest Hill Village's 250 buildings earn a 71st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Forest Hill Village at the 71st national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Forest Hill Village's buildings actually sit
250 buildings are counted in Forest Hill Village, and 55.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Forest Hill Village against the rest of the country
Forest Hill Village ranks lower within Montana (41st percentile statewide) than its 71st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Forest Hill Village ranks 9,145 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,146 by building count (1 is largest). Within Montana alone, it ranks 281 of 475 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Montana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Forest Hill Village
Forest Hill Village's 71st-percentile, 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
Forest Hill Village's 55.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Forest Hill Village's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Forest Hill Village's 9,145-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Forest Hill Village's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.