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The highest concentration of high risk wildfire zones are located in Oregon's southwest, central and eastern areas, ing to the map.
As Oregon's largest fire department, ODF's Fire Protection Program protects 16 million acres of forest, a $60 billion asset. These lands consist of privately owned forests as well as some public lands, including state-owned forests and, by contract, US Bureau of Land Management forests in western Oregon.
The 1910 fire burned three million acres and killed enough timber to fill a freight train 2,400 miles long. Wallace, Idaho was in the direct path of the raging fire. Citizens, mostly women and children, boarded trains to evacuate the threatened town.
It ranks among the largest wildfires in Oregon history, burning a total of 173,393 acres (70,170 ha) centered on the McKenzie River valley in Lane County.
In Oregon, the WUI is defined in state statute (OAR 629-044-1005 (m)) as “a geographical area where structures and other human development meets or intermingles with wildland or vegetative fuels.” The criteria for mapping that geographical area are defined in OAR 629-044-1011.
2024 Oregon wildfires Total fires 2,039 Total area 1,915,554 acres (775,197 ha) Impacts Deaths 14 more rows
California: August Complex Fire (2020) - 1,000,000 acres OR Dixie Fire (largest single source fire).
The Biscuit Fire was a massive wildfire in 2002 that burned nearly 500,000 acres (780 sq mi; 2,000 km2) in the Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest, in southern Oregon and northern California, in the Western United States.
The highest concentration of high risk wildfire zones are located in Oregon's southwest, central and eastern areas, ing to the map. A wildfire risk map issued by the Oregon Department of Forestry and Oregon State University breaks the state up into areas with low, moderate and high risk of wildfire.
In California, where the Forest Service manages 23 percent of the land, 57 percent of the total acres burned by wildfire in 2023 were managed by the agency. Across the West, nearly half of the land managed by the Forest Service is considered to be at “high risk” for wildfire.