Oregon faces longer fire season due to historic heat, drought, fire experts warn

Oregon’s wildfire season started early this year and is expected to last into October, according to state fire experts.
PBS

Five years after Oregon’s Labor Day Fires, scientists find surprises in burned forest streams

Scientists have been studying how water quality and wildlife have fared in 30 streams in the five ye Scientists have been studying how water quality and wildlife have fared in streams in the five ...
ksby

Oregon wildfire creates its own weather as fires across Northwest burn

An imposing column of gray cloud shoots into the sky from the Durkee fire — a wildfire that is around 244,000 acres burning in eastern Oregon. That cloud is called a pyrocumulus cloud — or fire cloud.
KOIN 6

Fire season may already be underway as March wildfire sparks evacuations in Central Oregon

PORTLAND, Ore. — A wildfire in Central Oregon in the middle of March forced evacuations this week, prompting fire officials to warn that this year’s fire season may already be underway. According to ...