There is a new wildfire burning in central Oregon Monday. The Alder Springs Fire is estimated at 1,500 acres. The area burning is northwest of Redmond, south of Lake Billy Chinook. It is burning on the Crooked River National Grassland.

A wildfire in Oregon has prompted evacuation orders for hundreds of homes and the closure of nearly 20 miles of an interstate in the Columbia River Gorge.

The Rowena fire ignited Wednesday in Eastern Oregon and quickly climbed the wind-swept hillsides of the Columbia River Gorge near the town of Rowena. It had burned 3,831 acres by Friday morning. Jordan Gale for The New York Times “It all happened really fast,