See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The 2026 season is running substantially ahead of 2025 by acreage, with ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. According to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), 101 new fires ...

Oregon has had hundreds of fires break out so far this year, and many are still ongoing with a month left in the fire season. Here's the latest on each major fire.

It could be a very challenging weekend for fire crews working the two dozen active wildfires east of the Cascade Mountains. A red flag warning has been issued for much of Oregon east of the Cascades ...

Oregon’s new megafires roared to between 100,000 and 300,000 acres in the grassland of southeast Oregon on July 30, while some older blazes are gradually coming under control. The fast-spreading ...

Oregon’s wildfire season has eased considerably from just a couple weeks ago, when nearly 40 fires were burning more than 2-and-a-half million acres across the state, but the danger isn’t over.

The Grasshopper Fire burning in Oregon's Mount Hood National Forest has expanded to 21,126 acres and remains 0% contained as of Thursday. Hundreds of firefighters continue battling flames in steep ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Across the state, more than 2,498,677 acres have been burned by wildfires this season, surpassing the 2024 record, according to the Oregon Department of Forestry. The agency's latest ...

This July is one that will be remembered for years to come east of the Cascade Mountains. Wildfires in central and eastern Oregon burned almost as many acres in July as have ever been recorded, across ...

A map created by Newsweek showing the United States’ largest active wildfires highlights the extraordinary scale of the 2026 fire season, with massive blazes in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 2026 season is running substantially ahead of 2025 by acreage, with more than 7.2 million acres burned nationwide as of August ...