22 listed stores across 10 cities, reviewed November 1, 2026.
We list 22 appliance stores in Montana, spread across 10 cities. 15 of them (68%) trade under a name we see nowhere else at scale, which is our working definition of an independent. Every listing is checked against Google Business Profile data; this page was last rebuilt from the database on November 1, 2026.
Counted from our own database on November 1, 2026. “Listed stores” is every active listing in Montana and is the denominator for every share on this page. 17 carry a working website and 22 carry a verified street-level location.
4 of the 22 Montana listings (18%) carry 500 or more Google reviews. A review count that size takes years to accumulate, so those are the storefronts with the longest public track record in the state, whatever their founding date says.
We have read the websites of 6 of the 22 Montana listings and recorded which brands each names. Across that subset the most frequently named are Amana (5), GE (5) and Maytag (4). Amana leads here where GE leads across the crawled sites nationally. This describes only the 6 crawled sites, not the whole state, and a brand appearing on a store site is not a guarantee of current stock.
Independents hold a smaller share of the inventory in Montana than in the median state: 68% here against 90%, a gap of 22 points. The largest multi-location operator we see here is Fred's Appliance, with 4 of its 7 national locations in the state.
7 of the 22 listings (32%) are in Billings alone. The remaining 15 are split across 9 other cities. Across all 51 state pages the median top-city share is 24%.
The typical rated listing here carries 43 Google reviews, fewer than the 74 of the median state. The most-reviewed listing in the state is Fred's Appliance in Missoula, at 806 reviews.
We have found a founding year for 3 of the 22 Montana listings, and 3 of those have been trading since before 2000. The earliest is Fred's Appliance in Missoula, which dates itself to 1962. The other 19 listings publish no founding date we could find, so treat this as a floor rather than a count.
Method. Each paragraph above is computed from this database when the page is requested, not written by hand, and every figure in it can be re-derived from the listings on this page. Where a paragraph compares Montana against a national figure, that figure is the median across all 51 state pages rather than a pooled national total, which three large states would otherwise dominate. Nothing is claimed about the Montana appliance market beyond what these listings show.
15 of 22 listings (68%) are independents. The remaining 7 locations belong to 3 multi-location operators:
| Operator | In Montana | Nationally |
|---|---|---|
| Fred's Appliance | 4 | 7 |
| Ferguson Home | 2 | 64 |
| Bargreen Ellingson Restaurant Supply & Design | 1 | 6 |
Method. We hold no ownership records, so an operator counts as a chain when the same store name appears 5 or more times across our national database. That groups by name, so a chain trading under several names is undercounted and two unrelated stores sharing a common name are overcounted. It is a proxy, and we would rather publish it with its limits stated than not publish it.
12 of 22 listings, ranked by Google rating weighted by review count so a single five-star review does not outrank a long track record. Stores with no rating on file sort last.
Appliance store in the Bozeman area, MT.
Bozeman, MT
Outlet appliance store in the Bozeman area, MT.
7472 1891 Boot Hill Court Bozeman, MT 59715
Appliance store in the Hamilton area, MT.
142 Cyn Fls Wy
Hamilton, MT 59840
Appliance store in the Laurel area, MT.
706 W First St
Laurel, MT 59044
Appliance store in the Bozeman area, MT, carrying 10 tracked brands.
1934 N 19th Ave
Bozeman, MT 59718
Speed Queen · Amana · Fisher & Paykel +7
Used appliance store in the Missoula area, MT, carrying 6 tracked brands.
1804 North Ave W Ste D
Missoula, MT 59801
GE · Kenmore · LG +3
Appliance store in the Billings area, MT.
3716 1st Ave S
Billings, MT 59101
Appliance store in the Absarokee area, MT.
12 Lovers Ln
Absarokee, MT 59001
Appliance store in the Missoula area, MT, carrying 11 tracked brands.
4949 Buckhouse Ln C
Missoula, MT 59804
Speed Queen · Amana · Fisher & Paykel +8
Appliance store in the Billings area, MT.
2649 King Ave W
Billings, MT 59102
Appliance store in the Great Falls area, MT, carrying 8 tracked brands.
1007 Central Ave W
Great Falls, MT 59404
Amana · GE · Hotpoint +5
Used appliance store in the Clinton area, MT.
Clinton, MT
22 of 22 listed stores have a verified location and are plotted individually.
We have classified what 4 of 22 Montana stores sell. The counts below describe only those 4, and they overlap, because one store can sell more than one type. The other 18 are listed but not yet classified.
All 22 listed stores, every store type included, grouped by city.