There were over 2,000 individual fires in the year 2000 in Montana. They burned over 9...

There were over 2,000 individual fires in the year 2000 in Montana. They burned over 945,000 acres of land. Some of the worst fires in the state ignited in the Bitterroot Valley. The fires that burned there were at one point the largest active fires in the nation. Despite their size, no people died in the fires that destroyed 71 homes and other structures.

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