Oregon Dept. of Forestry daily situation report: Still nearly 40 active large fires, more than 1.26 million acres burned

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Here is the Oregon Department of Forestry's fire situation report for Wednesday, July 31st:

ODF Incident Management Teams

• Team 2 is in command of the Winding Water Complex west of Wallowa (Northeast Oregon District). Updates available on the District’s Facebook page.
• Team 1 is in command of the Battle Mountain Complex – Zone 1 and Courtrock fire near Monument (ODF Central Oregon District). Updates available on the incident’s Facebook page.
• Team 3 is in command of the Battle Mountain Complex – Zone 2 near Ukiah (ODF Northeast Oregon District). Governor Kotek has invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act for this fire. Updates available on the incident’s Facebook page.
• North Carolina Forest Service Complex Incident Management Team (CIMT) is in command of the Cottage Grove Complex (ODF South Cascade District). Updates available on the incident’s Facebook page. This team was ordered in by ODF through a state-to-state mutual aid agreement.

ODF Priority Fires

There are approximately 9,805 personnel assigned to the 39 large fires across the state, not including many of the local and agency government employees, landowners, forestland operators, and members of the community who are contributing every day.

ODF Highlight: When Oregon was in need, our partners came to help. After the second lightning event in mid-July, resources in the area were tapped out, but incident management teams were still needed. To help alleviate the strain and add capacity, North Carolina and Florida sent enough firefighters to Oregon to create a combined incident management team. That complex incident management team is currently assigned to and managing the Cottage Grove Complex.With the help of this team, ODF had the opportunity to give a much-needed rest period to our Incident Management Team 2 before they were sent back out to the Winding Water Complex.The Cottage Grove Complex is comprised of two fires, Lane 1 and Adam Mountain. It is currently 12,109 acres and seven percent contained.Thank you, North Carolina and Florida! Weather High pressure, hot temperatures, low humidity, and poor humidity recovery (mainly eastside) return beginning today through the weekend. Low level instability and mixing heights increase as temperatures warm. A thermal trough over western Oregon will shift from the coast in the morning toward the Cascade crest each day. This triggers an afternoon wind shift from easterly to westerly plus brief increased mixing heights. There is low confidence of elevated thunderstorms returning late Friday night. Saturday and Sunday bring much better confidence for a return of thunderstorms. Southern Oregon looks to hold the best promise for Saturday with the threat moving northward Sunday.  Storms are most likely to start dry but quickly moisten while frequent lightning potential increases. Storms potentially continue early next week while conditions remain hot, dry, and unstable. Prevention Know the fire danger level of the areas where you live, work and play, and follow all local restrictions on burning, equipment use, campfires and other activities that can start wildfires. Find danger levels and restrictions across the state here. Resources ODF wildfire blog and Public Fire Restrictions/Danger Levels map Regional situation report and national situation report Inciweb (information, photos, videos, and maps from specific incidents)