Glendive, MT
Glendive, MT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Glendive's 2,826 buildings earn a 73rd-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glendive at the 71st percentile, close to its 73rd-percentile risk score.
Glendive's building exposure, zone by zone
2,826 buildings are counted in Glendive, and 95.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 4.6% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Glendive compares
Glendive ranks lower within Montana (42nd percentile statewide) than its 73rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glendive ranks 8,448 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,708 by building count (1 is largest). Within Montana alone, it ranks 275 of 475 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Montana on its state page.
Glendive and the insurance market
Glendive's 73rd-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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Glendive (95.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,826 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glendive. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Glendive, see the exposure-zones guide.