PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Oregon Department of Forestry has published a draft of its new “wildfire hazards” map, which identifies the areas of the state most threatened by wildfires. The Oregon ...

An Oregon bill that would eliminate a controversial wildfire hazard map moved one step closer to reality on Tuesday after unanimously passing the Senate Committee on Natural Resources. Senate Bill 83 ...

After Oregon’s devastating 2020 Labor Day fires, the Legislature passed a bill that was supposed to lead to more wildfire awareness and resilience. Among other things, Senate Bill 762 created a map of ...

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Four years of work and multiple drafts later, the controversial Oregon wildfire hazard map has gone up in smoke. In a unanimous decision, a Senate committee approved Senate Bill 83, which would repeal ...

The Oregon House voted Tuesday to repeal a controversial wildfire hazard map and home-hardening requirements that accompanied it. Rural Oregonians and their representatives in the Legislature had ...

SALEM Ore. (KPTV) - Wildfires have been a growing problem in Oregon for the last few years and there is an ongoing debate in Salem about how to best address the issue. The latest version of the Oregon ...

For the second time in two years, Oregon lawmakers want to kill a map meant to identify areas at high risk of catastrophic wildfires but that has become a lightning rod for anger from rural residents ...

Oregon’s controversial effort to map wildfire risk of every property in the state is moving forward more than two years after the state bungled the rollout of its original map and drew public backlash ...

Do you live in a landslide-prone area? A new tool from the United States Geological Survey can help you find out. The new map, released earlier this week, uses data from past events and landslide ...