After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly. This story was originally published by ...

Since the devastating 2020 Labor Day wildfires, the Oregon Legislature has passed a range of laws to create fire-adapted communities. Among these laws is SB 762, adopted in 2021, which required the ...

Thunderstorms raked Oregon with lightning strikes the evening of Sept. 3 and ignited numerous new wildfires across the state, according to state and federal officials. Firefighters and hot shot crews ...

Oregon wildfires burned a far smaller number of acres than last year’s historic total, but the state’s fires still destroyed more homes than normal and shut down rivers and roadways while spurring ...

At least 850 personnel are fighting the Burdoin Fire and some national forest lands in the Columbia River Gorge are now closed.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Researchers at the University of Oregon are warning that the risk of wildfires are going up, but they are seeing less investment in cameras that monitor wildfires. Unless the Oregon ...

Oregon lawmakers are weighing a proposal aimed at easing the state’s growing home insurance crisis by requiring insurers to recognize wildfire prevention work when setting rates and coverage decisions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new bill would require insurers who use catastrophic event and wildfire risk modeling formulas to calculate insurance premiums, ...

A year after Oregon endures its most destructive fire season on record in 2020, state lawmakers order a map estimating the wildfire risk for every property in the state. It's the kind of rating now ...