In the last decade, humans caused 7 out of 10 wildfires on state-protected land. (Lightning accounted for the rest.) In 2025, ...

Since the devastating 2020 Labor Day wildfires, the Oregon Legislature has passed a range of laws to create fire-adapted communities.

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 ...

The Southern Oregon Forest Restoration Collaborative helps Jackson, Josephine and Klamath County students understand wildfire ...

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 ...

Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden said Monday they have joined fellow Western senators to urge Congress to ...

Ecologists in a vast region of wetlands and forest in remote Oregon have spent the past decade thinning young trees and using planned fires to try to restore the thick stands of ponderosa to a less ...

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