Firefighters, along with the Oregon Department of Forestry, responded to a rapidly spreading field fire near Scharen Road on ...

Oregon’s tallest tree, a 326-foot Douglas fir east of Coquille in Coos County, has been on fire for two days, officials said.

Lightning did not cause the historic Doerner Fir Tree Fire, officials say. Bureau of Land Management investigators said the ...

Recent rain showers across Central Oregon have provided short-term relief, but fuels remain dry and the risk of wildfire is ...

Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire burning in one of the world's tallest trees. It may lower the tree's ...

Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire that is burning in one of the world’s tallest trees; The Doerner Fir, a coastal Douglas Fir tree over 325 ...

Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire burning in one of the world's tallest trees near the state's southern ...

The Doerner Fir is over 325 feet tall. Its top has been burning since Aug. 17, but lightning, the most obvious cause, has ...

A fire weather watch was issued for Thursday, Aug. 21, while an extreme heat watch was issued for Aug. 22-24 for Eugene and ...

Douglas-firs ( Pseudotsuga menziesii) are Oregon's most common trees, but the tree that's ablaze, known as the Doerner Fir, ...

Oregon's Durkee Fire — the largest active blaze in the U.S. — has burned more than 268,500 acres of land. And while that amount of lost land poses an aggressive and dangerous threat, there's ...