While temperatures around Western Oregon and Western Washington have fallen back between 80 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit in most places, southern Oregon is seeing triple-digit temperatures for an extended period. "The extremely dry vegetation and weather are not in our favor." "This is going to continue to grow," said Incident Commander Joe Hessel. It was 7% contained as of Thursday morning, the system reports. Welcome to Northwest Fires This is a page with links to help you find intel on wildfires in the NW area of the USA. Recent years have brought unusually large and damaging wildfires to the Pacific Northwest from the Carlton Complex Fire in 2014 that was the largest in Washington’s history, to the 2017 fire season in Oregon, to the 2018 Maple Fire, when normally sodden rainforests on the Olympic Peninsula were ablaze. Gavin Newsom has also put the power grid on high alert for mass outages and ordered the state to redirect power as needed.Īccording to INCIWEB, the Bootleg Fire is fueled by "hot, dry and breezy conditions" in tandem with low humidity recovery at night. Note from NWCC: The Northwest Fire Location map displays active fire incidents within. The fire is inching its way through Oregon's Fremont-Winema National Forest, less than an hour away from some of Northern California's prized carbon forestland. A map showing large wildfires in the Pacific Northwest from the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center. KLCC reports 64 members of the Oregon National Guard are on the ground in Klamath County fighting the fire alongside more than 1,300 firefighters from around Oregon. The fire has drawn firefighters from all corners of the state and has put thousands of Klamath County households under evacuation. In Oregon, 15 wildfires have blackened more than 255,000 acres.Īll eyes are on Oregon's Bootleg Fire which has grown to 227,000 acres or the country's most expansive fire so far this year. According to the INCIWEB reporting system, eight large fires in Washington have burned more than 94,000 acres this year. More than 60 fires are raging across the nation at the moment. The two northwestern states moved into "Preparedness Level 5" on Wednesday, a scenario in which "complex wildfire incidents" risk depleting national wildland firefighting resources, as defined by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC).
As Oregon and Washington lose thousands of acres to fire per day, the two states quickly move into new stages of emergency.
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