Lawmakers wanted to map which properties were most at risk to wildfires. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.

Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of Forestry released the proposed wildfire hazard map Thursday morning. There, Oregonians can look up specific tax lots to see how susceptible ...

Mount Hood’s Timberline Lodge, for example, which is owned by the U.S. Forest Service, has a more severe wildfire hazard designation than 96.15% of properties in Oregon, according to the map.

A wildfire risk map issued by the Oregon Department of Forestry and Oregon State University breaks the state up into areas with low, moderate and high risk of wildfire.© Provided by ODF and OSU ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon State University and the state Department of Forestry recently released revised draft maps of wildfire hazards across the state.

(This story has been updated with additional information) 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 ...

Andy McEvoy, a research assistant at Oregon State University’s College of Forestry, said the maps will help the state respond to wildfires, which have grown in size, frequency and intensity due ...

Bill would remove Oregon wildfire risk map's mandates SB 83 removes any state mandate that properties in high risk wildfire areas use fire-resistant building codes or require defensible space ...

Oregon Wild also raised concerns over a map released by the USDA secretary, showing lands covered under the emergency declaration. Oregon Wild described the map as “vague and misleading ...

Rail Ridge wildfire map Forest closures Rail Ridge and another fire, PR778, led to the Malheur National Forest closing areas of the forests from September 3 to December 31, 2024, according to a ...

Each of the 106,000 properties subject to the new wildfire rules will be contacted by the Oregon Department of Forestry to explain the process and allow for an appeal, officials said in a news ...