State guide

Restaurant health inspection grades in Montana

Coverage: 3 of 56 counties · Yellowstone, Gallatin, Missoula · more coming

GradeLocal lists 2,639 Montana restaurants. Their average score is 84.6, a B. This guide explains who inspects them, what the results mean and how the grades break down.

2,639restaurants listed

84.6 · Baverage score

3counties covered

Oct 30, 2026latest inspection date

See every Montana grade

Who inspects restaurants in Montana

RiverStone Health, Gallatin City-County Health Department and Missoula City-County Health Department. Violation counts.

Coverage: Yellowstone, Gallatin and Missoula, 3 of 56 counties. All sources

What Montana publishes

The agencies behind our Montana listings publish violation counts. None of them publish a score out of 100, so every Montana score on GradeLocal is a GradeLocal score, worked out from the official result.

How GradeLocal grades Montana restaurants

For violation counts, we count every violation in the latest inspection. None is an A, 1 or 2 is a B, 3 to 5 is a C, and 6 or more is a D. An emergency closure order is also a D.

Results with no score of their own get a set score for each letter: A is 95, B is 85, C is 72 and D is 50.

There are four letters, A to D, with no F. The same rule applies in every state, and the cutoffs are never adjusted for a state, county or city. We always use the latest inspection.

How grades work has the full rules.

Most common official results in our Montana data, and the letter each became
Official result	Letter	Listings
0 violations	A	1,081
1 violation	B	529
2 violations	B	384
3 violations	C	261
4 violations	C	134
5 violations	C	95
6 violations	D	60
8 violations	D	28

How Montana restaurants grade

The latest grade for each of the 2,639 listings.

1,081

41.0% · grade A

913

34.6% · grade B

490

18.6% · grade C

155

5.9% · grade D

Inspection dates in our Montana data run from Apr 29, 2019 to Oct 30, 2026. 2,081 of the 2,639 listings (78.9%) were inspected in the 12 months before Oct 30, 2026, our latest record. A restaurant may have been inspected again since.

Top-rated places in Montana

Every A-grade place in our Montana data gets the same GradeLocal score (95), so this list shows the ten most recently inspected A-grade places, one per name.

A grade shows one inspection on one day. Check the official record linked on each page.

Counties in Montana

Every county with at least one listing. Pick one to see its restaurants.

County	Restaurants	Average
Gallatin County	826	81.4 · B
Missoula County	732	83.0 · B
Yellowstone County	1,081	88.2 · B

Questions about Montana grades

Who inspects restaurants in Montana?

RiverStone Health, Gallatin City-County Health Department and Missoula City-County Health Department. Violation counts.

What does Montana publish: a score, a letter or something else?

How does GradeLocal grade restaurants in Montana?

For violation counts, we count every violation in the latest inspection. None is an A, 1 or 2 is a B, 3 to 5 is a C, and 6 or more is a D. An emergency closure order is also a D. Results with no score of their own get a set score for each letter: A is 95, B is 85, C is 72 and D is 50. We always use the latest inspection.

How many Montana restaurants are on GradeLocal?

2,639 restaurants in 3 counties. The average score is 84.6, a B. 41.0% have an A.

How current are the Montana grades?

Inspection dates in our Montana data run from Apr 29, 2019 to Oct 30, 2026. We update each state’s records regularly, but there is always a delay, and a restaurant may have been inspected again since. For the latest official report, follow the agency link on each restaurant’s page.