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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Jul 20, 2025, 07:43 PM Sunday

Oregon wildfire burns almost 100K acres, approaching rare megafire status

Source: NBC News

The country's largest wildfire this year has burned over 95,740 acres, fire officials in central Oregon said Sunday, as ground crews made progress to partially contain a blaze that could still intensify to become a so-called megafire.

The size of the Cram Fire was adjusted slightly downward from Saturday after "more accurate mapping" was completed, officials said. They added that the massive blaze — which has drawn more than 900 fire personnel, destroyed a handful of homes and prompted evacuations in two counties — was 49% contained after crews struggled to keep back the flames last week.

"Yesterday was another favorable day with us with the weather, and so a lot of good work was done," Scott Stutzman, operations section chief of the Oregon State Fire Marshal, said Sunday in a Facebook video. "We'll have those crews out there continuing to maintain a presence mopping up and also assisting our wildland partners on the perimeter."

Cooler temperatures and higher humidity over the weekend are expected to continue early this week, potentially aiding firefighting efforts, but the sheer size of the fire has been staggering: If it grows to at least 100,000 acres, it would be classified as a megafire, becoming the first one in the U.S. in 2025, said Stanton Florea, a spokesman with the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, which coordinates the country's wildland firefighting operations.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/oregon-wildfire-burns-almost-100k-193233436.html



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Oregon wildfire burns almost 100K acres, approaching rare megafire status (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday OP
idk about OR, but in Nor cal we're gonna get a cooler week... FirstLight Sunday #1

FirstLight

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1. idk about OR, but in Nor cal we're gonna get a cooler week...
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 09:20 PM
Sunday

and they are also calloing for Thnderstorms...maybe some RAIN will help!

I had never heard of a 'megafire'... so I looked up the big one we had in 2021 here in Tahoe (Caldor fire) it burned a total of 221,835 Acres. WOW I can't even wrap my head around it. Especially hard to see when you look at mountains...
looked it up, it's roughly the same land area as Ft worth TX!

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