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The 2024 Oregon wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned throughout the U.S. state of Oregon.. Predictions for the 2024 fire season made by the National Interagency Fire Center forecasted above average wildfire potential in the southeastern portion of the state and average wildfire potential throughout the rest of Oregon.
Oregon has already burned more acres than all of 2023 and almost 2022. Oregon has burned a whopping 434,821 acres in 30 large wildfires already this season, in addition to issuing 88 evacuation ...
Level 3 evacuation orders issued for Wickiup Reservoir area in Central Oregon. The Round Mountain and Wickiup fires on Deschutes National Forest reached a combined 70 acres by Wednesday evening ...
The Durkee fire, the current largest wildfire in Oregon, was discovered the morning of July 17, sparked by lightning, and has since burned through over 239,000 acres and as of Wednesday is 0% ...
Fire season officially began in all areas of the state by July 1, according to the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF). As of September 5, 2023 [update] , the state had recorded 1,731 fires, which had burned a total of 159,991 acres (64,746 hectares).
The ban was issued in response to several large, human-caused wildfires amid the statewide drought emergency and drier-than-normal weather across Washington. The largest fire at the time was the Pioneer Fire in the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest near Lake Chelan, which had grown to more than 12,000 acres (4,900 ha). [2]
More than 60 significant fires are burning in Oregon and Washington alone, and Oregon has been plagued with hundreds of lightning strikes from thunderstorms in recent days that have started new ...
The Old Naches Highway fire incident was reported on June 7. It had burned almost 645 acres by June 8. [7] The 10,000 acre Hat Rock Fire in Oregon crossed into Walla Walla County on June 13, where it burned more than 1,000 acres before being contained. [8] Three fires in grass and sagebrush in Benton County burned 7,000 acres by June 16. [9]