Fire season has started on lands protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry in southwest Oregon.
ODF said the agency’s 2023 fire season started on Thursday, June 1. The fire danger level starts at “Low” and the Industrial Fire Precaution Level will be 1.
The lands affected include 1.8 million acres of state, private, county, city, and Bureau of Land Management forestland in Jackson and Josephine Counties.
ODF’s Southwest Oregon District provided the following list of activities that are prohibited starting Thursday:
No debris burning, including piles and debris burned in burn barrels.
No fireworks on or within 1/8 of a mile of forestland.
Exploding targets and tracer ammunition, or any bullet with a pyrotechnic charge in its base, are prohibited.