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

Two Oregon lawmakers are calling on major insurance companies to stop using their own internal wildfire risk maps to drop ...

The highest concentration of high risk wildfire zones are located in Oregon’s southwest ... The road to the current map has been years in the making. After the initial wildfire map was released ...

“Oregonians have raised concerns over the current Oregon Statewide Wildfire Hazard Map, and this issue runs parallel to our urgent need for long-term, sustainable funding for wildfire response ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Republicans in the Oregon legislature introduced a bill on Tuesday to repeal the state’s Wildfire Hazard Map, citing concerns that the wildfire resiliency tool is ...

Oregon House and Senate Republicans are continuing to push back against the state's wildfire hazard map, introducing a bill ...

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 point of the Wildfire Risk Map, first published in 2022, was to inform lawmakers and agencies like the Oregon Department of Forestry and the Oregon State Fire Marshal’s Office about where to ...

Republicans in the Oregon Legislature introduced a bill Tuesday that would repeal the map showing the wildfire risk for every tax lot in the state, a map that critics say is rife with mistakes ...

A proposal that would force investor-owned utilities to submit wildfire plans is under attack ... But she argued Oregon’s current policies push utilities to cut off electricity too quickly ...

Two Oregon lawmakers are calling on major insurance companies to stop using their own internal wildfire risk maps to drop homeowners’ policies — at least until next year. In a Friday press ...