Oregon’s statewide 2025 fire season officially wrapped Friday with significantly fewer acres burned at a lower cost to the state than in previous years.

But fires this year got much closer to communities, state fire officials said, burning 200 homes and structures. Many of those were in the Flat and Rowena fires near Sisters and The Dalles.

“From a purely acres burned standpoint, it was significantly less bad than last year. From a community impact and primary residences lost standpoint, it’s actually significantly worse than last summer,” said Kyle Williams, deputy director of fire operations at the Oregon Department of Forestry.

And humans caused most of this year’s fires.

Oregon experienced more than 1,100 fires from early June to mid-October. They burned roughly 350,000 acres, far

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