Tower Road Fire
The Tower Road Fire was reported on May 21, 2023 in Morrow County, Oregon and burned 2,750 acres. It was declared out on June 15, 2023.
- Size
- 2,750 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- May 21, 2023
- Personnel
- 5
Map
Perimeter mapped May 21, 2023 at 5:45 PM PDT, 2,745 acres (digitized-other). Point of origin 45.834, -119.743.
The incident
- Size
- 2,750 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- May 21, 2023 at 12:45 PM PDT
- Contained
- May 24, 2023 at 5:00 PM PDT
- Controlled
- May 29, 2023 at 3:20 PM PDT
- Declared out
- June 15, 2023 at 9:15 AM PDT
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Location
- Fire spans 11 miles down I-84 in Boardman, OR.
- County
- Morrow County
- State
- Oregon
- Nearest city reported
- Boardman
- Protecting agency
- FWS
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Personnel assigned
- 5
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $125,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2023-WAMCR-000129
- IRWIN identifier
- 9F1747B8-5213-4835-86C6-E4FE784016D2
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Boardman, OR covers the area today.
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated June 15, 2023 at 10:03 AM PDT. Identifier 2023-WAMCR-000129.