Natural hazards · Fortine

Fortine, MT natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fortine comes from wildfires, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Fortine?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fortine to be higher than in 86% of U.S. communities, mostly from wildfires and avalanches.

Wildfire40%Avalanches34%Inland flooding16%Cold waves6%Everything else3%

By hazard

What Fortine faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Wildfire

40% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Avalanches

34% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Inland flooding

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Fortine flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Fortine.

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Fortine isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Lincoln County.

Disasters that hit Fortine

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Lincoln County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Fortine itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into FortineDeclared for Lincoln County only

Lincoln County has had 10 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and fires.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Fortine is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Fortine’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Fortine. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.