Oregonians who live in the state’s highest-risk wildfire zones will be subject to stricter building codes and requirements.
The Oregon Department of Forestry is welcoming back 70 firefighters on six strike teams who have been assigned to the fires ...
In Oregon, the new building and so-called defensible space codes will affect only about 106,000 tax lots. But experts say ...
Oregon fire experts have finalized their redo of state maps of wildfire hazard areas, showing that about 106,000 tax lots are in high-risk spots that could be subject to new building and landscape ...
When Oregon’s 2024 fire season ended in late October, over 1.9 million acres had burned across the state — an area larger than Delaware. For Tyler McCarty, district manager at the Coos Forest ...
The State of Oregon just published new wildfire hazard maps showing properties in certain areas with high wildfire risk. About 6% of homes — mostly in the southwest, central and eastern parts of ...