Oregon faces flood risks due to wildfires' burn scars, affecting soil absorption and increasing debris flow, with several ...

Forests in the Pacific Northwest may be losing value due to wildfire risk and volatile timber pricing, according to a new ...

The Wildfire Risk Map and wildfire-resistant building code requirements have been hotly criticized. While enacted with the ...

Wildfires are getting more catastrophic and expensive. For the last decade, Oregon policymakers haven’t been able to agree on how to pay for them. And while lawmakers emerged from this year’s ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Officials are cautioning the public after they say five fires caused by target shooting have been reported in the Tillamook State Forest since May. The most recent and largest ...

Much of Oregon is under fire weather watch and red flag warnings. The National Weather Service issued red flag warnings from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. July 29 due to thunderstorms producing abundant lightning ...

The federal shutdown has led to pauses in payment for forestry work in Oregon. That’s impacting wildfire prevention contractors. FILE - The Beachie Creek Fire burned nearly 200,000 acres east of Salem ...

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 ...

Nicole West steered her bulldozer through the smoldering forest, pushing logs into the underbrush and away from the wildfires ...