Walkerville, MT
How exposed is Walkerville to wildfire?
Walkerville's 489 buildings earn a 77th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Walkerville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 72nd percentile nationally.
Walkerville's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Walkerville (73.8% of 489 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 26.2% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Walkerville ranks
Walkerville ranks lower within Montana (49th percentile statewide) than its 77th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walkerville ranks 7,186 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,552 by building count (1 is largest). Within Montana alone, it ranks 246 of 475 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Montana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Walkerville
Walkerville's 77th-percentile, 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
Because 73.8% of Walkerville'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Walkerville's 7,186-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Walkerville, see the exposure-zones guide.