North Browning, MT
How exposed is North Browning to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts North Browning at the 85th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 882 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts North Browning at the 86th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
North Browning's building exposure, zone by zone
Of North Browning's 882 counted buildings, 54.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
North Browning against the rest of the country
Inside Montana, North Browning sits at just the 62nd percentile even though it scores 85th 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, North Browning ranks 4,792 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,887 by building count (1 is largest). Within Montana alone, it ranks 179 of 475 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Montana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in North Browning
North Browning's very high rating (85th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in North Browning (54.2%), 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 882 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for North Browning. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond North Browning, see the exposure-zones guide.