Hungry Horse is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Flathead County, Montana, United States.

The community sprang up during the construction of Hungry Horse Dam when the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation placed more than one hundred prefabricated buildings at the site to house workers.

[4] In 1948, Flathead County commissioners changed the name of the newly formed "Damtown" to Hungry Horse.

[5] The name comes from a local legend about two horses, Tex and Jerry, that escaped and almost starved to death in deep snow along the South Fork of the Flathead River.

West Side Road leads southeast from town up the South Fork valley 4 miles (6 km) to Hungry Horse Dam and its reservoir.