A case study of Oregon's 2020 Holiday Farm Fire found that the widely used dNBR burn-severity index captured broad ...

A map created by Newsweek showing the United States’ largest active wildfires highlights the extraordinary scale of the 2026 fire season, with massive blazes in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oregon Department of Forestry More than 2,498,677 acres have been burned by wildfires across Oregon this season, surpassing the ...

Oregon’s new megafires roared to between 100,000 and 300,000 acres in the grassland of southeast Oregon on July 30, while some older blazes are gradually coming under control. The fast-spreading ...

With wildfire season ongoing for another two months, extreme fire weather has sparked several new blazes as the state experienced rapid fire growth and a number of evacuation orders in parts of ...

With August coming to an end and fall less than a month away, officials are reminding Oregonians that the state’s wildfire season isn’t over yet. Oregon remains severely dry, and dozens of fires are ...

Oregon’s wildfires haven’t gotten their due this year. They’ve made some headlines and generated some discussion, but they deserve more. The condition of Oregon may depend on their getting it. By some ...

Two lightning storms ignited a multitude of wildfires in July that spread so fast they fueled a record-breaking number of ...

More than 150 personnel are on the scene, with firefighting resources including Single Engine Air Tankers (SEATs), Large Air Tankers (LATs), water scoopers, engines, dozers and overhead personnel.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 2026 season is running substantially ahead of 2025 by acreage, with more than 7.2 million acres burned nationwide as of August ...