The Smoke Management Program administers the rules for field burning in the Willamette Valley. Field burning, sometimes referred to as open field burning, is the burning of residues associated with grass seed and cereal grain production in the Willamette Valley. It is a special kind of agricultural burning under Oregon law.
There are two goals of the ODA Smoke Management Program:
- to protect public heath and
- to support Oregon grass seed producers in burning up to 15,000 acres annually.
Field burning is a cooperative effort between the ODA Smoke Management Program, the
Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF), the
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), the
Oregon Seed Council and the grass seed growers of the Willamette Valley.
Visit our
Agricultural and Backyard Burning page to learn more about these types of burning.
For information about forest fires, view the
Northwest Interagency Coordination Center fire location map. This map displays active fire incidents within Oregon and Washington.