fire danger

Montana Senator Steve Daines toured the Frenchtown Face Timber Project on Wednesday, and spoke with area forest stakeholders about the future of federal lands access and the historically extreme fire danger evident in Montana.

Western Montana is under a heat advisory for most of the weekend—reaching temperatures that most of the state hasn’t seen for over a century.

Some fireworks ARE legal within the Missoula city limits, but not many.

Frenchtown fire crews rushed to the scene of a grass fire in Alberton early Thursday morning, but the cause of how the fire started is still unknown.

State Forester Bob Harrington told KGVO News that the fire season of 2015 could be among the worst ever. unless the area receives some much-needed rain.

Fire danger on the Bitterroot National Forest has been moved to high as a result of the much warmer and drier weather in the past few weeks.

A warm winter and an early, windy spring have pushed Missoula County into a high fire danger scenario earlier than expected.

The Missoula County Fire Prevention Association has increased the fire danger level back to 'HIGH'.

Fire officials with the Missoula County Fire Protection Association  have moved the fire danger to “High” starting on Tuesday August 19.

The City of Missoula will join other West Central Montana fire agencies in enacting Stage I fire restrictions early Thursday morning.

Monday morning, based on current and expected weather conditions, fire officials with the Missoula County Fire Protection Association (MCFPA) agreed to move the fire danger in Missoula County to "Very High" starting  at midnight on July 29.

As summer deepens into July, fire danger for Western Montana has been elevated to 'Moderate" by city and county officials.