Wildfire rips across Oregon desert
DENIO, Nev. - A blaze sparked by lightning Sunday has burned across over 230 square miles of high desert along the Oregon and Nevada border this week.
The Holloway fire benefited triple-digit temperatures, single-digit humidity and gusty winds to scorch mile after mile of Great Basin sagebrush steppe.
Fire behavior experts report conditions that have allowed the fire to actively burn over new terrain 20 hours per day, giving the more than 300 firefighters working the blaze little time to contain the blaze.
The fire is only 5 percent contained, and weather forecats contain more dry lightning and wind gusts up to 25 mph.
The fire remains poised to burn north and northwest into Oregon at least another 5 miles and south another 2 miles, fire managers said. Bulldozer lines on the west flank of the fire held the flames at bay, however.
