Turner Colony, MT
Turner Colony, MT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Turner Colony sits at the 56th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 32 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Turner Colony at the 54th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Turner Colony's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Turner Colony (53.1% of 32 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 46.9% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Turner Colony ranks
Inside Montana, Turner Colony sits at just the 19th percentile even though it scores 56th 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, Turner Colony ranks 13,966 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,328 by building count (1 is largest). Within Montana alone, it ranks 386 of 475 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Montana on its state page.
Turner Colony and the insurance market
At the 56th national percentile, Turner Colony rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Turner Colony
Because 53.1% of Turner Colony'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.
More on how this number was built
Turner Colony's 56th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Turner Colony, see the exposure-zones guide.