HUMBOLDT - Firefighters battled a fire on conservation reserve acres six miles south of Humboldt for about 90 minutes Saturday.

A Humboldt Volunteer Fire Department  Facebook post wonders if the grass fire season has come early, despite snow melt.

The Nebraska Rangeland  fire Danger Index listed Nemaha and Richardson counties as among the lowest risks in the state for fire over the weekend. The U.S. Drought Monitor does list a band from Peru to Pawnee City as abnormally dry, but the most intense drought conditions are 500 miles away  in the northwest corner of the Panhandle.

The Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy describes the typical wildfire season from early summer through mid-autumn, but says, in recent years, the threat has become year around.