Howe Ridge, MT - Wildfire Overview  - 				08	September	2018									
								c.	0500 UTC						
Weather Conditions -  															
The vicinity of the fire was cloud free.															
															
Details -															
The northeastern part of the fire was not requested and was not imaged or mapped. If there is fire there, it is not shown as it was not looked at.														
The interpreters were able to designate the fire perimeter and isolated fires for the rest of the fire area with no difficulty.															
Small areas of growth in the perimeter were detected on the western part of the perimeter and the one interior island on the south central part of the fire burned out.	One area of growth is 
along the north central edge, where the fire has crossed the creek in the SW quarter of section 12 and has started moving up the south facing slope.  There is intense fire mapped there as well.
Creeping growth is mapped along the southern edge along the very western part of the fire where the fire is moving upslope.  There is also some growth along northwest shore of Lake McDonald.														
Small areas of intense fire were detected along the southwest, south and along the northern perimeter of the west third of the perimeter of the fire.															
Moderately large areas of scattered fire were detected along the western, southern and north central parts of the of the fire.															
Isolated fires outside the perimeter were generally within fairly close proximity to the main perimeters.															
															
Acreage -															
Estimated Acreage: 13,640 acres															
Acreage Change: + 76 acres															
															
Data Conversion -															
Aircraft3 data is in WGS84, degree decimal, shapefile.															
To convert to NAD83:															
Using Toolbox in ArcMap, use WGS_1984_1 (AK, CONUS) as the "Geographic Transformation (optional)"															
To convert to NAD27:															
Using Toolbox in ArcMap, use WGS_1984_4 (Mean for CONUS) as the "Geographic Transformation (optional)"