Oregon wildfires burned a far smaller number of acres than last year’s historic total, but the state’s fires still destroyed more homes than normal and shut down rivers and roadways while spurring numerous evacuations in 2025.

This season, 338,551 acres burned across the state, lower than the record-setting 1.9 million blackened in 2024 and below the 10 year average.

Even so, Oregon fire officials said it wasn't a quiet fire season.

Oregon had 205 structures burned by wildfires this summer — the third most since 2015. Fires also closed rivers and highways, burned a state park and threatened thousands of homes near Sisters.

“We had smaller fires, but they burned right next door to a lot of communities,” said Kyle Williams, Oregon Department of Forestry deputy director of fire operations

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