Oregon lawmakers want to kill a wildfire risk map meant to identify areas of high risk that has become a lightning rod for ...

The state wildfire hazard map is dead or headed for a reckoning. We don’t know that for sure, so don’t get your hopes up if that is what you have ...

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek paused referrals for wildfire hazard map appeals on Monday, which come amid calls from state ...

Republican lawmakers want to repeal the statewide wildfire risk assessment map, claiming it has skyrocketed insurance rates and harmed land values.

Jeff Golden, D-Ashland, also supported repealing the wildfire map “that has so many people scared and confused.” After the historically destructive 2020 Labor Day wildfires, the Oregon ...

On Feb. 17, Republican lawmakers convened en masse in Salem to savage the map, the final version of which was published in ...

Amid mounting criticism from the public and lawmakers from both parties, Gov. Tina Kotek has paused any further agency action ...

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

Wildfires have been a growing problem in Oregon for the last few years and there is an ongoing debate in Salem about how to best address the issue.

The Oregon Department of Forestry is accepting all appeals to the statewide wildfire hazard map up until Mar. 10, under ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek paused referrals for wildfire hazard map appeals on Monday, which come amid calls from state lawmakers to repeal the maps altogether. Kotek ...