Wildfire updates: Emergency Conflagrations invoked for Beachcomb & Bench fires and 2nd Flat Fire - 9th & 10th this year
Oregon is facing a severe wildfire season with multiple large-scale fires, including the Grasshopper and Akawa Butte fires, forcing evacuations and straining state resources. Officials are working to establish containment lines as the state experiences record-breaking acreage burned.
Why it matters
The increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires pose significant threats to public safety, infrastructure, and the environment.
(KPTV) - Wildfires continued to burn across Oregon Sunday, scorching hundreds of thousands of acres and forcing evacuations around the state.
The Grasshopper fire is now estimated to be at 9,500 acres, according to fire officials on inciweb.wildfire.gov .
Huntington in Baker County is now under Level 3: Go Now evacuation orders, according to city officials.
The Grasshopper Fire in Mount Hood National Forest, located in Wasco County, started Saturday and had grown to more than 4,500 acres as of Sunday morning, adding to a wave of fires stretching state resources across Oregon.
Fires are burning across the state, with hundreds of thousands of acres still burning in central and eastern Oregon. Crews on the Grasshopper Fire are focused on keeping the fire away from homes to the south. Go Now evacuation orders are in place in Hood River and Wasco counties.
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