After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger ...

An emergency closure has been issued for the length of the popular Fall Creek area east of Eugene in response to the ...

The Burdoin Fire has destroyed at least 45 structures on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge and hundreds of residents remain on a level 3 "go now" evacuation order near Lyle, Wash., for a ...

Senate Bill 83 repeals a map meant to identify parts of Oregon at high risk of catastrophic wildfires but has become a lightning rod for anger from rural residents who say it places an unfair ...

In addition to the 15,000-acre Green Fire burning in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, several other forest fires have grown large. Included is the uncontained Butler Fire in the Orleans Complex ...

Experts who worked on the maps said they were an important step in identifying and protecting fire-prone areas as the state continues to contend with record-breaking wildfires. Oregon's wildfire ...

A structure destroyed by the 2020 Oregon wildfires. (Courtesy U.S. Forest Service.) Oregon lawmakers are working to disentangle requirements for rural “accessory dwelling units,” commonly ...

If passed, Senate Bill 83 would repeal the map produced under a multi-year effort by scientists at state agencies and Oregon State University that show where the highest risk of wildfires are ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers have voted to repeal the state's contentious wildfire hazard map, which subjected homeowners in certain areas at high risk of wildfires to stricter ...

An architect of Oregon’s wildfire map on why he now supports repealing it The building and so-called defensible space provisions impacted 6% of the state’s roughly 1.9 million tax lots, a ...