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Key Points According to new population projections, 20 counties will gain over 1.2 million new residents each by 2100. Growth is centering around the urban and suburban cores of large metro areas.

Data shows Ravalli County, Mont., an area seeing explosive population and development growth, is at higher wildfire risk than the vast majority of counties in the country.

Counties like Lewis and Clark, Granite, Cascade and Flathead have been labeled as natural disaster areas for drought.

Gallatin and Flathead were the fastest growing counties in Montana between 2023 and 2024, while the city of Kalispell has grown nearly 25% since 2020, adding more residents than any Montana city, ...

A quarter of Gallatin County’s increase was due to a younger population. The county’s birth rate was 1,141 people while only 686 individuals died during the year of record.

Gallatin and Flathead were the fastest-growing counties in Montana between 2023 and 2024, while the city of Kalispell has grown nearly 25% since 2020, adding more residents than any Montana city ...

The federal government last week released the latest population counts for the nation’s more than 3,000 counties, as well as all incorporated cities and towns.