The fire had burned almost 7 square miles in Bitterroot National Forest.
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Just north of Los Angeles, a 65-square-mile wildfire in wilderness just north of Los Angeles was nearly fully contained and only active with isolated pockets of vegetation burning within a fire lines.
In eastern Nevada, firefighters had 80-percent containment of a 1.3-square-mile wildfire on public rangeland about 95 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
Most of the fire is burning in state park land or private property, and about 25 percent is burning in Los Padres National Forest, Cal Fire spokesman Bennet Milloy said. Damage was reported to U.S. Forest Service and residential fencing, but no homes were lost.
Some evacuation orders have been lifted, but fire officials said about 300 residents remained displaced and about 2,000 structures were listed as threatened. It was about 10 percent contained.
Northwest of Dubois, a 21-square-mile blaze was 40 percent surrounded and some residents who evacuated seasonal homes were allowed to return. Thus far, at least 57 homes and 11 outbuildings have been destroyed and a bulldozer operator assigned to work the fire line has been killed. Both were started by lightning.
About 20 structures remained threatened by the fire east of the town of Pendleton, the Oregon Department of Forestry said.
Authorities are considering what potential penalties face those who set an illegal campfire that ballooned into a massive wildfire near the scenic Big Sur region of California.
Everyone said this would be a brutal fire season, and that prophecy is coming to pass. John Thornburg says those responsible could face civil penalties for the cost to fight the fire. Prosecutors also could file charges in the death of 35-year-old Robert Reagan.
Investigators determined that an unattended campfire started the blaze on July 22 in a day-use area of Garapata Park. The campfire in question was located up around a closed area of the park near the Soberanes Creek Trail estimated to be about 2 feet by 2 feet.
The 3.4-square-mile blaze started Saturday and quickly spread through steep, rugged terrain covered with dry vegetation and dead trees. Hot, windy weather and hard-to-access terrain have made conditions difficult for firefighters as the blazes destroy homes and force evacuations. The fire is about 5 percent contained.
The wildfire was burning about 12 miles north of Sunnyside.
Fire spokeswoman Jennifer Myslivy says no evacuations are in place.
More than 1,400 firefighters are battling a blaze in southwest Idaho that has grown to 66 square miles and destroyed a state-operated backcountry structure.
It has scorched more than 79 square miles and is just partially contained.
People in Utah were allowed back into their homes after a small wildfire forced evacuations early Wednesday at a neighbourhood tucked against a mountainside south of Salt Lake City.
Crews battling a deadly wildfire burning well into its second week near California’s Big Sur coast have carved buffer lines around a quarter of its perimeter, steering flames more deeply into the forest and away from populated areas, officials said on Wednesday.
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Another fire, burning north of the San Francisco Bay Area along the Yolo-Napa county line, has scorched 4,000 acres of grass and oak woodlands since it erupted on Tuesday, prompting evacuations of a campground and residential community.
