The gesture comes as county commissioners face pressure from property owners — mostly in rural areas — to advocate against the state’s map.

California’s firefighting agency is showing just how much of the state is prone to wildfire with the release of its final ...

Republicans in the Oregon Legislature introduced a bill Tuesday that would repeal the map showing the wildfire risk for every ...

covering Northern California coastal areas from the Bay Area up to the Oregon border, including Sonoma and Napa counties. The new maps will add 1.4 million acres of land statewide into higher fire ...

Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole ...

In Ventura County ... the hazard maps to those of flood zones. Fire hazard zones are based on the likelihood that an area will burn over decades. But the maps don't show the risk or potential ...

The number of Western snowy plovers in Oregon increased slightly last year, as officials begin roping off patches of beach ...

This month, state legislators and Deschutes County commissioners have heard from rural residents about their frustrations with the Oregon Department of Forestry's wildfire hazard map as a cause ...