Oregon Wildfire Updates

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The onus may soon no longer fall on Josephine County property owners to prove they have fire protection measures to obtain building permits. If the proposed changes to the county code are approved, only property owners…

JACKSONVILLE, Ore. — Jacksonville is blazing a trail in wildfire prevention techniques that have drawn praise from the Oregon State Fire Marshal’s office. The OSFM says Jacksonville’s project in Forest Park emphasizes the resilience and…

A windstorm blustered across Oregon on Labor Day in 2020, simultaneously igniting 5 megafires and twelve others. Within days, over a million acres were scorched- including forests and homes. Taking 11 lives and destroying more than 4,000…

Reporting a blistering 54,273 fires so far nationally in 2023, the National Interagency Fire Center is currently fighting 3 wildfires in Oregon- the Chilcoot fire in Douglas and the Grizzly fire next door in Lane County, as well as the Camp…

Ashland is a community that still feels the effects of the 2020 Almeda wildfire. While it’s a devastating event that everyone still remembers, some good is coming from it. Oregon State University researchers are receiving $750,000 in…

When the Archie Creek Fire was started in 2020, roughly 170 homes were destroyed and 130,000 acres were burned to the ground. Along with it came many, many lawsuits against PacifiCorp, the parent company of Oregon electric utility Pacific…

There are currently 25 different wildfires across the state of Oregon, which have burned a combined 51,000 acres and injured 33 people. Only two have reached 50% containment. At least, this is the information as of writing this. I say…

From burn pans to cooling plans, Oregon is now in safety mode as it tries its best to stand strong in the face of 100 degree weather. This isn’t the first heat wave they’ve faced, and it won’t be the last, but that isn’t the issue. The…

The Owyhee River is one of Oregon’s treasures. The name comes from three Hawaiian trappers that had been exploring the uncharted river and is derived from an earlier version of the name “Hawaii”. Owyhee River is very popular with…

According to Nasa, a staggering 97% of actively publishing climate scientists from around the world agree that global warming and climate change not only exist, but also are man-made. Because of this overwhelming consensus, we’ve already…