Science & Environment

Before and after video captures the impact of Oregon’s 2020 Labor Day wildfires from above

By Ed Jahn (OPB) and Todd Sonflieth (OPB)

Aug. 26, 2021 12:56 a.m. Updated: Aug. 31, 2021 1 p.m.

More than 400,000 acres burned in the Western Cascades as the Beachie Creek, Lionshead and other fires merged during a wind storm that started on Labor Day of 2020.