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 ...

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 ...

Kotek directed the state forestry department to pause any further action based on the map until the Legislature decides to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Months after Oregon’s historic wildfire season burned nearly two million acres of land, destroyed dozens of homes, and injured civilians and fire responders ...

The latest version of the Oregon ... map is inconsistent. For example, along Rhododendron Lane in Mount Hood Village, houses that are right next to each other have drastically different fire ...

The map lists addresses, which are searchable online, as having a high-, medium- or low-risk designation. It is the product of years of work between the state agency and the university, and was meant ...

The point of the Wildfire Risk Map, first published in 2022, was to inform lawmakers and agencies like the Oregon Department of Forestry and the Oregon State Fire Marshal’s Office about where to ...

On Jan. 7, the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) issued wildfire hazard maps covering the entire state. These maps, divide the state into three wildfire hazard classes, low, moderate ...

Oregonians who live in the state’s highest-risk wildfire zones will be subject to stricter building codes and requirements under a new hazard map ... Oregon. Mostly, it would require using fire ...

An Oregon husband and wife were arrested Saturday for allegedly impersonating firefighters near the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles that has burned more than 23,713 acres and claimed the lives of at ...

Fire Maps: RED SEA: The state finalized its map of fire risks in January. (Oregon State University/Bureau of Land Management) Republicans say the wildfire hazard map is causing panic for many ...

Tina Kotek has paused any further agency action on the state’s new Wildfire Hazard Map until the Legislature ... in the aftermath of Oregon’s most destructive fire season in 2020.