Amanda Linares
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The Emergency Conflagration Act was invoked for the 12th time so far this fire season, to get more firefighting resources to the Wright Springs Fire burning near Upper Klamath Lake. -
The past decade has seen a big increase in the number of days with unhealthy levels of smoke. That includes nearly every part of Oregon. -
People on the Warm Springs Reservation have evacuated, and other communities in Central and Eastern Oregon are threatened as more than 1 million acres in Oregon have been consumed by wildfires. -
Prolonged dry, warm conditions this winter have led to the worst snowpack levels the state has seen since 1981, according to Oregon’s state climatologist Larry O’Neill. -
Wildfires across Oregon have so far burned over one million acres. Although milder weather has brought some relief to firefighters, officials say they still have a long way to go.
