Natural hazards · Jette

Jette, MT natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Jette?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Jette to be higher than in 79% of U.S. communities, mostly from avalanches and earthquakes.

Avalanches35%Earthquakes31%Inland flooding20%Cold waves11%Everything else4%

By hazard

What Jette faces

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

Avalanches

35% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 0% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Earthquakes

31% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

20% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Jette flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lake County.

Disasters that hit Jette

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into JetteDeclared for Lake County only

Lake County has had 6 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and fires.

Around Jette

Jette and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Jettemostly avalanchesHigh

Rocky Pointmostly avalanchesHigh

Polsonmostly avalanchesHigh

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. Jette 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 Jette’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Jette. 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.