Wildfire Costs

Yellowstone County is doing community outreach in the process of revising its wildfire protection plan, a document often required for government grant applications to fund wildfire prevention projects.

Like other electric utilities in the U.S. west, NorthWestern Energy staff says insurance costs are increasing.

This year 1,876 fires have burned more than 406 square miles in Montana.

Montana’s firefighting fund is full for the first time in state history, amid what Gov. Steve Bullock is calling strong overall budget reserves.

The omnibus spending bill passed by Congress last month earmarked billions of dollars for fighting wildfires. Many conservationists and politicians…

For years, Western lawmakers have been trying to change the way we fight wildfires, or at least the way the government funds such work. Now, they may...