Missoula fire smoke is bad, but it s been much, much worse
and last updated 2021-07-28 19:14:13-04
MISSOULA â There may be some temporary relief from our fire smoke, but the long-range outlook is for more of the same. Yet even as bad as it s been, conditions are nowhere close to our worst fire season. Mind you, this isn t going to put the fires out or anything. But with the wind and everything we should get some periods of clean air. And I hope that s not just wishful thinking.
Ben Schmidt with the Missoula City-County Health Department says with dozens of fires burning, the smoke is coming from everywhere.
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Study: More homes are burning in fire-prone areas of Montana
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Posted at 1:30 PM, Dec 19, 2020
and last updated 2020-12-19 15:30:51-05
MISSOULA â As people build more houses in Montanaâs wildland-urban interface, more homes have burned and will burn in wildfires unless homeowners take precautions.
In November, Bozeman-based Headwaters Economics published a study showing the number of homes destroyed in wildfires is increasing. Kimiko Barrett, Headwaters Economics program coordinator, said that information should be publicized more because it reflects the social and economic toll of wildfires better than the number of acres burned.
âTo date, there is no source that we are familiar with that publically releases information on structures lost. Itâs really hard to find, which is a shame because itâs so important,â Barrett said. âItâs publically available, but to dig through that kind of information, we had to use a whole tech team.â�
Study: More homes are burning in fire-prone areas of Montana
MTN NEWS
and last updated 2020-12-19 10:53:49-05
MISSOULA â As people build more houses in Montanaâs wildland-urban interface, more homes have burned and will burn in wildfires unless homeowners take precautions.
In November, Bozeman-based Headwaters Economics published a study showing the number of homes destroyed in wildfires is increasing. Kimiko Barrett, Headwaters Economics program coordinator, said that information should be publicized more because it reflects the social and economic toll of wildfires better than the number of acres burned.
âTo date, there is no source that we are familiar with that publically releases information on structures lost. Itâs really hard to find, which is a shame because itâs so important,â Barrett said. âItâs publically available, but to dig through that kind of information, we had to use a whole tech team.â