First Official Prediction for 2013 Fire Season Released, Likely Similar to 2012
The first official fire forecast for 2013 has been released and if the predictions are accurate, the year will likely play out very similarly to 2012.
The first official fire forecast for 2013 has been released and if the predictions are accurate, the year will likely play out very similarly to 2012.
Montana’s fire season will officially end at midnight tonight.
Thanks to all the ash in the air it looks more like a volcano erupted than wildfire season in Western Montana.
Lolo National Forest spokesman Boyd Hartwig says ‘Fire Season has come to Western Montana’, and he has two rapidly growing fires to prove it. The Butler Fire has doubled in size to over 80 acres in the last 24 hours as it burns a few miles from Frenchtown Pond.