Idaho’s fire season has been turned on its head this year. North Idaho, the wettest part of an otherwise dry state, is where the greatest threat of big fires exists. Conditions look hauntingly like those 105 years ago, when a million acres burned in two days across North Idaho and Montana. That year, there was little spring rain and the snow cover melted early, said Elers Koch, the Forest Service supervisor who wrote the official history of the 1910 fires. “July followed with intense heat, and drying southwest winds from the Columbia plains,” Koch wrote. “Crops burned up all over the region.” Sounds familiar. This June, state forestry officials said they had seen an unusually dry spring and were seeing fire conditions in the north that they usually don’t see until late July or August/Rocky Barker, Idaho Statesman. More here.