Fire Season Has Been Declared
Pleasant Hill Goshen Fire & Rescue partners with Oregon Department of Forestry to follow the same public use restrictions regardless of whether you live in the ODF protection area. It is important to our region that we all band together to follow and comply with fire restrictions established in the region. For questions, please feel free to contact our office.
Wildfire Danger Level For:
September 28, 2023
Low Fire Danger
- Fires in forests tend to spread irregularly with flames of less than one foot.
- Fires in dry grass spread steadily with flames slightly less than or equal to the height of the grass.
- Shrubs within the grass may not burn readily.
- Embers from the fires rarely start additional fires and tree crowns generally do not ignite.
Moderate Fire Danger
- Fires start somewhat readily to rapidly.
- Fires in forests spread slowly to moderately quickly with flames of 1-3 feet.
- Crowns of trees with branches close to the ground may ignite (torching) but fires rarely spread far in the tree crowns.
- Fires in dry grass spread moderately quickly to quickly with flames up to 2 times the height of the grass, especially if conditions are windy. Some shrubs within the grass burn readily.
- Embers from the fires may start additional fires (spotting) a short distance from the main fire.
- Unattended campfires may begin to creep away from the fire ring or fire pit.
High Fire Danger
- Fires start readily and spread quickly.
- Fires in forests can ignite small groups of trees (group torching) and spread for short distances in tree crowns (short crowning runs).
- Flames in the surface part of the fire can easily exceed 4 feet and may exceed 8 feet.
- Fires in dry grass spread very quickly with flames of 10 to 20 feet, especially where shrubs are also burning.
- Spotting is common and can occur some distance from the main fire.
- Unattended campfires are likely to escape a fire ring or fire pit and sparks are likely to start fires in dry grass and needles.
Extreme Fire Danger
- Fires start readily and spread quickly.
- Crowning runs are common and fire spread through tree crowns for some distance (crown fire) is possible.
- Flames in the surface part of the fire can easily exceed 8 feet and may exceed 12 feet.
- Fires in dry grass and shrubs spread very quickly with flames over 20 feet likely.
- Torching and short crowning runs are possible in juniper, where it is present.
- Spotting is very common and occurs some distance from the main fire.
- Unattended campfires are very likely to escape and sparks are very likely to start fires in dry grass and needles.
Report Illegal Burning
Lane Regional Air Protection Agency enforces illegal burning.
Public Use Violations
To report public use restrictions
violations like mowing call the Oregon Department of Forestry.
Other Resources
Public Fire Restrictions
Click on the Public Fire Restrictions image below for a downloadable PDF.
