Cottonwood

Growth

Per interagency perimeter data, the COTTONWOOD containment moved from 95% to 100%.

KIMBERLY, Ore. (Aug. 19, 2026) – Firefighters continue to make steady progress mopping up and building containment on the Bologna, Cottonwood, Little Bear and Rosenbaum fires. Mop-up operations are the methodical and systematic process of identifying and cooling hot spots along the fire’s edge to ensure that heat doesn’t reignite dry vegetation and loft embers outside the fire’s perimeter. Crews a...

Firefighters continue building containment across all fires, hot, dry and gusty conditions forecasted in the region KIMBERLY, Ore. (Aug. 18, 2026) – Firefighters continue to make steady progress mopping up and building containment on the Bologna, Cottonwood, Little Bear and Rosenbaum fires. Mop-up operations are the methodical and systematic process of identifying and cooling hot spots along the f...

Per interagency perimeter data, the COTTONWOOD containment moved from 93% to 95%.

Firefighters continue building containment across all area fires KIMBERLY, Ore. (Aug. 17, 2026) – Firefighters continue to make steady progress and build containment on the Bologna, Cottonwood, Little Bear and Rosenbaum fires. Firefighters continue to strengthen control lines across all incidents. Crews have mopped up into 50 feet along portions of the Rosenbaum Fire and well into 200 and 300 feet...

Hold and secure: firefighters make significant progress on Rosenbaum Fire KIMBERLY, Ore. (Aug. 16, 2026) – Firefighters made significant progress on the Rosenbaum fire, leading to the reopening of the single-lane closure on Highway 19 and reducing some evacuation levels in Grant County. Today they look to hold and improve control lines and tie in critical line along the southwestern portion of the...

Firefighters provide aggressive initial attack, expanding control lines and slowing Rosenbaum Fire from expanding KIMBERLY, Ore. (Aug. 15, 2026) – Yesterday, firefighters provided a robust initial attack supported by aviation resources to significantly slow growth and started to establish fire lines around the majority of the Rosenbaum Fire. Their efforts prevented structure loss and successfully ...

Per interagency perimeter data, the COTTONWOOD containment moved from 88% to 93%.

ODF CIMT-3 assumes command of the rapidly-growing Rosenbaum Fire, firefighters continue to build containment on other fires KIMBERLY, Ore. (Aug 14, 2026) – This morning, the Oregon Department of Forestry’s (ODF) Complex Incident Management Team (CIMT) 3 assumed command of the rapidly-growing Rosenbaum Fire. The 200-acre Rosenbaum Fire is located in the Service Creek area, around mile marker 75 of ...

Per interagency perimeter data, the COTTONWOOD containment moved from 77% to 88%.

Firefighters continue to build containment, ODF CIMT-3 assumes command of the Little Bear Fire KIMBERLY, Ore. (Aug 13, 2026) – Firefighters continue to make progress on the Bologna, Cottonwood and Little Bear fires. Crews continued to hold the fires within their current footprint. Today, firefighters will continue to improve control lines and extend mop-up operations, which consist of cooling the ...

Per interagency perimeter data, the COTTONWOOD containment moved from 71% to 77%.

Crews hold Bologna Fire in current footprint, build containment KIMBERLY, Ore. (Aug 12, 2026) – Yesterday, firefighters continued to make progress on the Bologna and Cottonwood fires and held the fires within their current footprint. With more accurate infrared mapping, the Bologna Fire is currently mapped at 4,743 acres. Today, with assistance from assigned and local aviation resources, firefight...

Per interagency perimeter data, the COTTONWOOD was remapped 1 acres lower to 722 and containment moved from 65% to 71%.

Forward progress stopped on Bologna Fire, ODF CIMT-3 takes command of Bologna and Cottonwood fires KIMBERLY, Ore. (Aug 1, 2026) – Yesterday, firefighters made significant progress on the Bologna Fire and were able to get control lines around the entirety of the fire perimeter. Crews were also able to hold the fire north of Highway 402 between mileposts 5 and 7. Today, with assistance from assigned...