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 harming rural Oregonians ...
Oregon House and Senate Republicans are continuing to push back against the state's wildfire hazard map, introducing a bill ...
The map ranks each property in Oregon as either low, medium or high hazard. Its purpose is to educate landowners about their wildfire hazard, assist with prioritizing firefighting resources and ...
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 ...
Oregon's statewide wildfire risk assessment map has been a source of contention ... more urbanized areas of the Willamette Valley from Portland to Eugene and parts of the Oregon Coast.
This month, state legislators and Deschutes County commissioners have heard from rural residents about their frustrations with the Oregon Department of Forestry's wildfire hazard map as a cause ...
An early morning apartment fire has left several residents struggling to get back on their feet, including Portland nurse Gina Hicks.
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 ...
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 ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – As southern California continues to be ravaged by several wildfires in early January, firefighters in Oregon are looking ... does not recognize map lines, and we are ...