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A bill that would eliminate a controversial Oregon wildfire hazard map moved one step closer to reality on Tuesday.
Lawmakers from both parties support scrapping Oregon's wildfire hazard map four years after devastating fires, saying it failed to accurately assess risk.
The wildfire hazard map, created by Senate Bill 762 in 2021, was meant to identify areas in Oregon with high wildfire risk.
A controversial law involving Oregon’s Wildfire Risk Map would be repealed, under a bill in the Legislature. The map would ...
The Oregon Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Wildfire voted unanimously Tuesday to eliminate the state's ...
Two Oregon lawmakers are calling on major insurance companies to stop using their own internal wildfire risk maps to drop ...
Austin City Council is set to vote Thursday on an expanded wildfire risk map that some local industry groups have opposed due ...
Senate Bill 83, which seeks to repeal the controversial wildfire hazard map and the related regulations, advanced today after ...
Similar maps sparked a homeowner uprising in Oregon in 2022 ... are meant to show carriers where the risk of fire is greatest and the extent of damage it could cause, Collins said.
The Trump administration declared a state of emergency in timber supply and national forest health across the United States ...