Noxon, MT
Noxon, MT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Noxon at the 92nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 278 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Noxon at the 89th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
278 buildings are counted in Noxon, and 57.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Noxon against the rest of the country
Noxon's risk sits at a similar level relative to Montana (81st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (92nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Noxon ranks 2,583 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,270 by building count (1 is largest). Within Montana alone, it ranks 93 of 475 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Montana on its state page.
Noxon and the insurance market
Noxon's 92nd-percentile, very 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 57.6% of Noxon in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Noxon's 2,583-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Noxon, see the exposure-zones guide.