Oregon’s historic wildfires: unusual but not unprecedented

The most common word being used to describe Oregon’s ongoing wildfire cataclysm is “unprecedented.”

That’s certainly the case in modern recorded history when it comes to the sheer number of conflagrations and megafires that erupted starting Labor Day. A powerful windstorm caused fires to race through Oregon’s typically more fire-resistant forests on the west side of the Cascades for 72 hours.