This is the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) fire information update for Thursday, August 16, 2012.

FIRES ON ODF-PROTECTED LANDS
No new fires 10 acres or larger were reported today on the lands protected by the Oregon Dept. of Forestry.

 

 

The lightning-caused Barry Point Fire burning 22 miles southwest of Lakeview has burned 8,532 acres on private lands in ODF’s Klamath-Lake District, and a total of 79,000 acres on all jurisdictions in Ore. and Calif. The department has a number of firefighting resources assisting in the suppression effort. It is 30 percent contained.

FIRES ON OTHER LANDS IN OREGON
The 436,560-acre Holloway Fire originating 25 miles east of Denio, Nevada, has burned 224,556 acres in Oregon on the Burns and Vale Districts of the Bureau of Land Management and 212,004 acres in Nevada. The lightning-caused fire is 71 percent contained.

The 3,657-acre Fort Complex burning on the Klamath National Forest in Calif. and the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in Ore. is 23 percent contained. The fire was started by lightning.

The 14,036-acre Ten Mile Complex is burning on Bureau of Land Management lands northeast of the town of McDermitt, Nevada, on the Nevada/Oregon border. The lightning-started fire is 90 percent contained.

The 271-acre Buckhead Complex burning on the Willamette National Forest two miles north of Westfir is 50 percent contained. The fire was started by lightning.

The 2,723-acre Waterfalls 2 Fire burning on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation is uncontained. The fire was started by lightning.

OTHER FIRE INFORMATION
For information on wildfires in all jurisdictions within Oregon, go to the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center website, http://www.nwccweb.us/, or to the national Incident Information System website, http://www.inciweb.org/state/38.

Fire statistics

Fire statistics are for the current year and the average over the past 10 years for the 16 million acres of private and public forestland protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry.

Fires by cause: January 1 – Aug 16, 2012
Lightning-caused fires: 91 fires burned 1,326 acres
Human-caused fires: 288 fires burned approx. 368 acres
Total: 379 fires burned approx. 1,694 acres

10-year average (Jan. 1 through the present date in the year): Lightning-caused fires: 209 fires burned 16,130 acres
Human-caused fires: 441 fires burned 2,225 acres
Total: 650 fires burned approximately 18,355 acres

 About This Update
The Oregon Department of Forestry is responsible for fire protection on private and state-owned forestland, and on a limited amount of other forestlands, including those owned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in western Oregon. Because fires starting on one ownership type may spread to others, and because of the need to share firefighting resources, agencies commonly work closely together.

This update focuses primarily on firefighting activity on Oregon Department of Forestry-protected land, and on the department’s role as a partner in fighting major fires that start on land protected by other agencies.

Source: Oregon Department of Forestry.