Much of the state is experiencing cooler temperatures and some areas have seen a little moisture. But, "Fire season is far from over," says Carol Connolly, at the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center, "Currently, we still have 20 large active fires in the state of Oregon."
Connolly tells us, "We just took five large fires off the board over the last 24 hours. Four of those were in Oregon and one was in the state of Washington. So, great progress is being made." However, 500,000 acres of Oregon are still actively burning. And, of the 20,000 wildland firefighters deployed around the country right now, almost 8,000 are in our state.
"This is a time of year we get East Winds. So, that east wind effect and that threat still remains," says Connolly, "All it would take, according to our fire weather meteorologists, is a few days, if not about a week of warming in certain parts of the west side of the Cascade mountains, all the way into eastern Oregon.