St. Regis, MT
How exposed is St. Regis to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts St. Regis at the 92nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 329 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 St. Regis at the 89th percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
Where St. Regis's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 60.8% of St. Regis's 329 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 39.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How St. Regis compares
St. Regis's risk sits at a similar level relative to Montana (80th 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, St. Regis ranks 2,651 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,853 by building count (1 is largest). Within Montana alone, it ranks 94 of 475 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Montana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in St. Regis
St. Regis's very high rating (92nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 60.8% of St. Regis's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where St. Regis's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind St. Regis's 2,651-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what St. Regis's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.