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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.
Oregon lawmakers passed an oral nicotine tax to pay for some wildfire costs, while a bill aimed at getting wildfire survivors awarded money failed.
Oregon lawmakers passed an oral nicotine tax to pay for some wildfire costs, while a bill aimed at getting wildfire survivors awarded money failed.
Carmen and about 40 other Indigenous kayakers had spent years training for the expedition with the help of Ríos to Rivers.
As wildfire smoke becomes a frequent summer hazard across large parts of the US, knowing the risk at the neighborhood scale ...
OREGON- A bill to repeal Oregon’s widely controversial Wildfire Hazard Map now awaits Governor Kotek’s signature. The ...
MISSOULA, Mont. — At the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, the Fire Modeling Institute pools data from over 30,000 communities across the country to calculate wildfire risk. The mapping process ...
A recent Klickitat County meeting marks the early stages of a process to gauge the risks and hazards wildfire poses in Washington and to guide new codes for fire-resistant construction.
The company’s most recent annual report filed on Feb. 24 indicates PacifiCorp faced an additional $48 billion in wildfire-related claims by the end of last year.
Oregon lawmakers failed to pass bills addressing PacifiCorp's wildfire liability, leaving victims unpaid and utilities in financial uncertainty.
Oregon lawmakers last week voted to repeal the state’s wildfire hazard maps — along with their unpopular property requirements — with only a single dissenting vote: the Legislature’s lone ...