The Ashland lawmaker wants the map to designate the risk level of broad areas rather than naming the risk of individual ...

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. In northwest Oregon ...

The new defense codes will affect around 106,000 tax lots, requiring new construction to incorporate specific features.

A full house of worried Deschutes County residents showed up Wednesday as county commissioners discussed the state’s recently ...

Sen. Jeff Golden (D-Ashland) plans to reintroduce a bill to help wildfire-affected communities. Golden’s past attempts failed ...

Oregon property owners who are receiving notices from the state that their property is in a zone with high wildfire risk and in a ...

Oregon's revised wildfire risk map continues to generate concerns among homeowners, despite efforts to address the potential impacts on insurance policies and property values. The map, which is a prod ...

The statewide maps of wildfire hazard zones and the wildland-urban interface are complete and final versions are now available on the Oregon Explorer website. Notifications are being mailed to ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — About 260 Oregon firefighters are in their second week helping battle wildfires in Southern California, working 24-hour shifts under the Oregon State Fire Marshal's direction.

Nearly four years ago, in the aftermath of the state’s most destructive wildfires in history, the Oregon Legislature passed a ...

Oregonians who live in the state’s highest-risk wildfire zones will be subject to stricter ... The yearslong process to produce a map that designates every part of Oregon as low, moderate or high risk ...