Jette, MT
How exposed is Jette to wildfire?
USFS scores Jette at the 60th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 218 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Jette's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 60th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
218 buildings are counted in Jette, and 71.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 3.7% rated Minimal.
How Jette compares
Inside Montana, Jette sits at just the 24th percentile even though it scores 60th 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, Jette ranks 12,702 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,205 by building count (1 is largest). Within Montana alone, it ranks 362 of 475 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Montana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jette
At the 60th national percentile, Jette rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Jette's 71.6% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 218 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Jette. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Jette, see the exposure-zones guide.