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Dylan Johnson, Weyerhaeuser forester and firefighter crew leader, said he has one fear heading into Oregon’s 2024 summer and fall wildfire season.

Dylan Johnson, Weyerhaeuser forester and firefighter crew leader, said he has one fear heading into Oregon’s 2024 summer and fall wildfire season.

Dylan Johnson, Weyerhaeuser forester and firefighter crew leader, said he has one fear heading into Oregon’s 2024 summer and fall wildfire season.

Dylan Johnson, Weyerhaeuser forester and firefighter crew leader, said he has one fear heading into Oregon’s 2024 summer and fall wildfire season.

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The Oregon Department of Forestry declared an end to the 2023 wildfire season on Oct. 18, marking Oregon’s third consecutive year of declining wildfire conditions. Fires burned approximately 190,507 acres around the state in 2023, well shy of the 456,038 acres torched by wildfires in 2022 and a fraction of the 1.14 million acres devastated by wildfires in 2020.

Oregon’s 2023 fire season is officially over according to the Oregon Department of Forestry. This comes due to cooling temperatures and widespread rain but with this declaration, NewsWatch 12 has to look back at the different fires that ravaged our region this year.

Oregon’s 2023 fire season is officially over according to the Oregon Department of Forestry. This comes due to cooling temperatures and widespread rain but with this declaration, NewsWatch 12 has to look back at the different fires that ravaged our region this year.

With temperatures in the lower 70s on Thursday, drying will continue through Friday when another system moves into the area, bringing moisture over the weekend.

Oregon saw less acres burned by wildfire in 2023, but the fires that did burn brought major impacts.