The highest concentration of high risk wildfire zones are located in Oregon’s southwest, central and eastern areas, according to the map. In northwest Oregon, most of the Willamette Valley is ...

The gesture comes as county commissioners face pressure from property owners — mostly in rural areas — to advocate against ...

The latest version of the Oregon Wildfire Hazard Map is raising concerns from homeowners all across the state, especially in rural areas. The problem is that many claim the map is inconsistent.

Jeff Golden, D-Ashland, also supported repealing the wildfire map “that has so many people scared and confused.” After the historically destructive 2020 Labor Day wildfires, the Oregon ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek paused referrals for wildfire hazard map appeals on Monday, which come amid calls from state lawmakers to repeal the maps altogether. Kotek ...

The state wildfire hazard map is dead or headed for a reckoning ... Anthony Broadman, D-Bend, told the Oregon Senate on Thursday he wants the map repealed. Our journalism needs your support.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon's statewide wildfire risk assessment map has been a source of contention since its inception — and most recently, state House and Senate Republicans want to do away ...

to continue to accept all appeals of the Oregon Wildfire Hazard Map up to the Mar. 10 deadline but to pause sending the appeals to the Office of Administrative Hearings until after the legislative ...

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — While lawmakers deliberate potential changes to the state's wildfire hazard map policy, some Oregonians say it needs to be scrapped altogether. A few dozen people opposed to ...

Tina Kotek has paused any further agency action on the state’s new Wildfire Hazard Map until the Legislature decides what to do with it. Kotek on Monday directed the Oregon Department of ...

Garrett Repp will spend more than a decade behind bars for starting a fire that destroyed an apartment building in southwest Portland in May of 2023. Portland police are searching for a driver who ...

House Republican Leader Christine Drazan, R-Canby, speaks at a news conference announcing plans to kill Oregon's recently released wildfire risk map. After the historically destructive 2020 Labor ...