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 professional ...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. This is how misinformation gets accepted as fact. A year after Oregon endures its most destructive fire season on record in 2020, state lawmakers ...
The Wildfire Risk Map and wildfire-resistant building code requirements have been hotly criticized. While enacted with the best intentions, many argue they create onerous and unfair mandates that ...
A rapidly growing fire broke out on July 27 east of Rome in southeast Oregon, growing to at least 10,000 acres in just 1.5 hours. The National Weather Service issued a red flag warning for July 28 in ...
SISTERS, Ore. (KPTV) - The Flat Fire burning in the Jefferson and Deschutes counties was reported to be “fairly well under control” by the battalion chief on Monday night. The wildfire, which is ...
Thousands of residents across Northern California wine country and central Oregon faced evacuation orders Sunday as two major wildfires continued spreading through dry terrain amid triple-digit ...