When Oregon’s 2024 fire season ended in late October, over 1.9 million acres had burned across the state — an area larger than Delaware. For Tyler McCarty, district manager at the Coos Forest ...

Zone JAC-437 has been downgraded to a Level 1 'Be Ready' evacuation.

Oregon firefighters answer call to fight California fires Senator Jeff Golden (D-Ashland), told KOIN 6 News he’s been working on getting funding for neighborhood-wide preventative programs.

By August, over 13,000 firefighters were working Oregon fires at once. And by the end of the fire season, more than 1,000 wildfires – including six “megafires” larger than 100,000 acres ...

Passed: Oregon tax on Zyn, interest from rainy day fund. The biggest wildfire funding bill that passed was House Bill 3940 — which includes a tax on oral nicotine products, taps the state’s ...

The measure, House Bill 3940, would tax oral nicotine products and tap the interest on Oregon’s rainy day savings account and ...

It now moves to the House, and if passed, to Gov. Tina Kotek's desk. The Oregon Senate has repealed the controversial Oregon wildfire hazard map. It moves to the House for a vote, then, if passed ...

But fast-growing fires are now the norm. Using NASA satellite data, we studied more than 60,000 fires in the United States over nearly two decades.During that time, we saw a 250 percent increase ...