Pacific Northwest Wildfires

About wildfires in Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest — encompassing Oregon, Washington, and parts of northern California — has experienced increasingly severe wildfire seasons. The 2020 fire season was catastrophic, with over 1 million acres burning in Oregon alone during a single week of extreme wind events.

The region's dense coniferous forests, when combined with drought and east wind events, create conditions for explosive fire growth. Communities across the Cascades and into the Willamette Valley face growing wildfire threats as development pushes into fire-prone landscapes.

This tracker monitors all satellite-detected fires across the Pacific Northwest in real-time.