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Wildfire in Siskiyou Mountains & Southern Oregon Cascades, Oregon

Wildfire September 5, 2019 – September 27, 2019 · Siskiyou Mountains & Southern Oregon Cascades, Oregon

What the National Weather Service wrote

Numerous thunderstorms moved across the area on 9/5/19. Dozens of fires were initiated by lightning. One of them was the Gopher Wildfire, which started off as five fires, all ignited by lightning strikes around 05/1915 PDT. The fires merged into one fire. As of the last report on 27/0430 PDT, the fire was at 354 acres and was 100 percent contained. 0 structures were lost and 4.8 million dollars had been spent on firefighting efforts.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 843882. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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