This is how misinformation gets accepted as fact. 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 ...

Wildfire managers and policy makers in Oregon and Washington often evaluate a community’s wildfire risk based on environmental factors such as the probability of wildfire exposure or the number of ...

A new wildfire risk assessment tool that takes social vulnerability into account indicates that more than 400 communities in the Pacific Northwest are at greater risk than previously thought. However, ...

Some areas of Eugene and Springfield are at heightened risk for fire. See if your home is in one of these areas.

(TNS) — More than 400 mostly small communities throughout the Northwest, such as Cave Junction, Glendale and La Pine in southern and central Oregon, are at greater risk of suffering from wildfires and ...

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More than 400 mostly small communities throughout the Northwest, such as Cave Junction, Glendale and La Pine in southern and central Oregon, are at greater risk of suffering from wildfires and their ...

Gov. Tina Kotek declared a state of emergency on June 16 due to what her office called the "imminent threat of wildfire." Oregon is headed into this summer at historically dry levels and forecasts ...