Regulated Use Fire Closure
The closure will go into effect July 23, 2010 at 01:00 am:
Fire Season Declared for the Northwest Oregon Area
7/9/10
Fire season has been declared for the Northwest Oregon Forest Protection District effective Thursday, July 8th at 0100. (This area includes all State, private and BLM forest land in the Tillamook, Astoria, and Forest Grove Districts, which consists of Tillamook, Washington, Yamhill, Clatsop, Columbia, and Multnomah Counties, as well as portions of Lincoln County).
The Industrial Fire Precaution Level (IFPL) can be checked at the at link below. There are three areas covering the Tillamook State Forest (NW-1, NW-2 and NW-3). Effective last year, the boundary for NW-2 moved east to the Tillamook District boundary. The maps are available thru the link below.
http://egov.oregon.gov/ODF/FIELD/TILLAMOOK/aboutTillamook.shtml
For more information on industrial fire precautions and regulated use, closures follow the link here:
Find a description of each IFPL here:
What fire season means
Entry into fire season imposes certain restrictions on recreational and work activities in the forest. Industrial operations are required to have firefighting equipment on site. Since restrictions may vary, it is advisable to check with the nearest ODF office for rules specific to the local area.
Industrial Fire Precaution levels (IFPL) are part of ODF’s closure system that regulates industrial activity in the forests west of the Cascade Mountains. When fire season takes effect, the district will be at an IFPL 1, which imposes the fewest restrictions and generally requires a fire watch at industrial forest operation sites. IFPL details can be found at: www.oregon.gov/ODF/FIRE/ifpl.shtml.
Wildfire facts
On the lands protected by the Department of Forestry, the 10-year average is about 1,100 wildfires burning a total of 24,000 acres. In a typical year, about two-thirds of the fires are caused by people and the remainder by lightning. Of the human-caused fires, fewer than half are caused by forest landowners and operators. Across all Oregon forest protection jurisdictions, about 2,600 wildfires burn roughly 239,000 acres annually on average.
Between January 1 and July 9, 2010, 14 lightning-caused fires had burned about 3 acres on lands protected by ODF. During that period, 100 human-caused fires burned about 82 acres.
The Oregon Department of Forestry provides fire protection to 15.8 million acres of private and public forestlands statewide, including 2.8 million acres of federal Bureau of Land Management lands. There are about 30.4 million acres of forest in Oregon.
Private landowners together with ODF, the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, and rural fire departments are a key component of Oregon’s complete and coordinated fire protection system.
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