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Western Montana's Community Fire Planning Zone
 
 
 
 

Powell County (outlined below) has over 25,000 acres that fall within the CFPZ, and 90% of that land is either state owned or privately owned. Does it make sense to spend all of our fire prevention resources on just the 10% of at-risk land that the federal government happens to own? View a detailed map of Eastern Montana.

 
Western Montana CFPZ
Map Key
CFPZ on federal land CFPZ on other land Forest Service
BLM Wilderness National Park Service
US Fish and Wildlife Tribal State

 
Montana

Vegetation Type

Ownership Shrub/Grassland Forest Agriculture Riparian Barren Urban CFPZ Total
Private 36% 26% 4% 8% 2% 1% 77%
Forest Service 2% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0% 15%
Tribal, State, Local 2% 2% 0% 0% 0% 0% 5%
BLM 1% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0% 2%
National Park Service 0% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0% 1%
CFPZ Total 42% 42% 4% 8% 2% 1% 2,376,851 acres
Looking west from the Blackleaf Wildlife Management Area at the peaks of the Rocky Mountain Front and the area where the BLM has been considering permts for new oil and gas drilling. Photo courtesy of Rick Graetz.
 
 
 
 
 
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