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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Flat Fire near Sisters appeared to be winding down on Aug. 29 but the Emigrant Fire continues to chew through forest south of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A second major wildfire has erupted in Oregon, this one the Emigrant Fire burning south of Oakridge in Willamette National Forest outside the Diamond Peak Wilderness. The fire grew rapidly to 6,000 ...

The Flat Fire has destroyed four homes and six other types of buildings in central Oregon as it continues burning roughly two miles northeast of Sisters. The largest wildfire in Oregon remains under a ...

Sen. Jeff Golden, D-Ashland, modeled his new bill after a similar Colorado law. It follows years of rising property insurance premiums and policy cancellations or nonrenewals across the country, ...

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 ...

Oregon homeowners who take steps to protect their homes from wildfire could pay less for property insurance under a southern Oregon state senator's proposal to require insurers to consider fire ...