The yearslong process to produce a map that designates every part of Oregon as low, moderate or high risk of wildfires came about ... the edges of the valley and Coast Range mountains to the ...

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.

Oregon's statewide wildfire risk assessment map has been a source of contention ... from Portland to Eugene and parts of the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The state wildfire hazard map is ... whose 2021 bill called for the map said he thinks it needs to go. State Sen. Anthony Broadman, D-Bend, told the Oregon Senate on Thursday he wants the map ...

This month, as constituents tried to convince me that the state wildfire hazard map caused increases in their ... As we witnessed during Oregon’s Labor Day 2020 wildfires and recent southern ...

SALEM, Ore.--Those that own property in Oregon may still file their intent to appeal designations made by recently released wildfire hazard maps. Appeal forms must be received by March 10 to ...

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 ...

As the wildfires intensified during one week in September, air pollution from PM2.5 climbed above 300 in areas across the West Coast. On September 10, the Oregon coast was enveloped by smoky air ...