Wildfires are still burning around Oklahoma following last Friday’s firestorm that left four persons dead, hundreds of homes destroyed and tens of thousands of acres of land darkened.
The Oklahoma Forestry Services issued a report Monday showing which fires remained and what percentages were under control. It cited 39 ongoing fires and indicated some serious wildfires are expected.
“While State, Local and Federal fire crews made significant progress Sunday improving containment on many of the current
wildfires in Oklahoma, the state is entering another period of extreme fire danger as fuels that have been subjected to very strong drying conditions leading to increasing resistance to control,” cited the Forestry Services.
“Critical to extreme fire weather indices through Friday will support fire growth on existing fire challenging control lines and new wildfire occurrence is expected to be heavy taxing the
already heavy commitment of incident response resources.”
The Services said a dry return of weather will “very likely lead to heavy initial attack coupled with a high probability of new large wildfire occurrence.”
“Ahead of a dry cold front overnight Tuesday, the number of wildfires on the landscape will present very challenging firefighting conditions coupled with yet another high probability day for Wildfire Outbreak in western and central
Oklahoma.”
Ongoing Large / Significant Fire Activity within the OFS Protection Area:(>100 Acres Timber / >300 Acres Grass/Brush)
• Eight Mile Mountain Fire (Latimer County) – 320 Acres / 80% Contained
• Long Mountain Fire (Haskell County) – 797.8 Acres / 80% Contained
• Dirty Pine Fire (Pushmataha County) – 152.0 Acres / 50% Contained
• Venison Hollow Fire (Adair County) – 402 Acres / 50% Contained
• Ferrier Fire (Adair County) – 406 Acres / 60% Contained
• Ketcher hollow Fire (Latimer County) – 101 Acres / 70% Contained
• Tully Hollow Fire (Adair County) – 205 Acres / 50% Contained
• Brushy Church Fire (Pittsburg County) – 240 Acres / 90% Contained
• Big Draw Fire (McCurtain County) – 146.4 Acres / 80% Contained
• Cherry Tree Fire (Adair County) – 109.0 Acres / 50% Contained
• Hamby Ridge Fire (Delaware County) – 706 Acres / 80% Contained
• Davis Fire (Haskell County) – 96.6 Acres / 75% Contained
Fire Activity with OFS Response Outside of the Protection Area: 1 New Fire Burned 60 Acres
• 840 Road Fire (Roger Mills/Dewey County) – 27,855 Acres / 35% Contained
• Camargo Fire (Dewey County) – 5,726 Acres / 35% Contained
• Little Salt Creek Fire (Pawnee County) – 11,192 Acres/Multiple Structures / 20% Contained
• Hickory Hills Fire (Oklahoma County) – 6,643 Acres/13 Structures/ 35% Contained
• 33 Road Fire (Logan/Payne Counties) – 32,475 Acres/50 Structures / 20% Contained
• Timberline Fire (Cleveland County) – 98 Acres/17 Structures / 75% Contained
• Post Oak Fire (Cleveland County) – 204 Acres / 70% Contained
• Onyx Fire (Cleveland County) – 380 Acres / 70% Contained
• Station 2 Fire (Cleveland County) – 583 Acres/8 Structures / 50% Contained
• 1980 Road Fire (Beckham County) – 1,700 Acres / 90% Contained
• Euchee Valley Fire (Payne County) – 8,512Acres/9 Structures / 55% Contained
• Hellroaring Creek Fire (Pawnee County) – 10,176 Acres / 80% Contained
• Stripes Fire (Creek County) – 436.0 Acres / 95% Contained