Sangrey, MT
How exposed is Sangrey to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sangrey at the 86th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 125 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sangrey at the 86th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Sangrey's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 100% of Sangrey's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 125 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Sangrey compares
Inside Montana, Sangrey sits at just the 65th percentile even though it scores 86th 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, Sangrey ranks 4,379 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,951 by building count (1 is largest). Within Montana alone, it ranks 166 of 475 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Montana on its state page.
Sangrey and the insurance market
Sangrey's 86th-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.
Hardening a home in Sangrey
With 100% of Sangrey 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 125 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sangrey. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sangrey, see the exposure-zones guide.