Montana Wildfire Hazard Profile
Hazard Data · Model Version 2.5
Overview
Montana carries one of the heaviest federal wildfire response records in the country. OpenFEMA lists 67 fire-related declarations for the state: 64 Fire Management Assistance Grants, issued while a fire is burning and threatening destruction, and 3 major disaster declarations. That ratio is the shape of the hazard — frequent large-footprint fires in sparsely populated terrain, where suppression cost rather than structure loss usually drives the federal response.
In the Historical Record
Counted from the records this platform holds. A figure is shown only where the underlying dataset could be read.
County by County in Montana
What federal records show has happened in each county: storms, disaster declarations and flood insurance claims. The counties below have the longest NOAA storm records in Montana.
Notable Historical Events
Hazard Scoring Approach
Calchis computes a Calchis Hazard Score (0–10) for wildfire hazard at any US address. The score is composed of weighted sub-components derived from federal data sources and published research. All score components are transparent and returned in API responses.
These are hazard scores — physical intensity likelihood only. They do not include property exposure or vulnerability data. We never call a hazard score a risk score. See the full methodology for scoring details.
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Calchis Hazard Score — derived from federal and academic sources listed above. Property exposure data not included. Not a substitute for professional actuarial assessment. Decision-support intelligence — not a primary alerting or dispatch system. Verify against official sources.