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 ...

Oregon wildfires damaged the sales value of nearby farmland and larger blazes tended to cause more severe negative impacts, according to a new study. After a wildfire, ag acreage located within 2 ...

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 ...

A wildfire that destroyed four homes in central Oregon was starting to stabilize on Monday, authorities said, while a blaze in Northern California wine country has so far spared some of the state’s ...

After Oregon’s multi-year effort failed to implement codes for wildfire buffers and resistant building materials, Deschutes County is rebooting a similar effort of its own — but it’s not yet clear how ...

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 ...

One of Oregon's two largest wildfires has continued to grow. Temperatures over the Labor Day weekend in the Willamette Valley and central Oregon are expected to be in the upper to mid 80s, and some ...

Cole Lindsay remembers embers from the 2024 Fossil Complex Fire blowing into a steep canyon, a place where crews feared new fire starts had the potential to form. Lindsay, the Oregon Department of ...

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