A warm and dry spring is setting the stage for what appears increasingly likely to be a busy wildfire season in Oregon and ...

After Oregon’s devastating 2020 Labor Day fires, the Legislature passed a bill that was supposed to lead to more wildfire awareness and resilience. Among other things, Senate Bill 762 created a ...

Oregon experienced its most severe wildfire season on record in 2024, with an estimated 1.9 million acres of forest and ...

Oregon faces an elevated wildfire risk due to a warm, dry spring and predictions of hot, dry conditions through the summer. Despite a wet winter and healthy snowpack, a dry April has rapidly dried ...

Neighbors are saying something should have been done sooner after a fire broke out on a problem property in a very forested area in East Multnomah County.

According to the Oregon Department of Forestry, South Fork Forest Camp is the oldest work camp in the Pacific Northwest.

Tina Kotek and state fire officials held a news conference Wednesday at Oregon's largest wildfire supply depot to discuss the state's readiness efforts. Kotek declared May "Wildfire Awareness ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Last year, Oregon had one of the most destructive wildfire seasons in its history—1.9 million acres burned, communities were tested, and lives were changed. But amid the ...

Trinity County, California, and Josephine County, Oregon, had the highest per capita death rates in the U.S., each with 17 deaths per 100,000 residents from climate-driven wildfire smoke.

TILLAMOOK COUNTY, Ore. — As wildfire season approaches in Oregon, the Oregon Department of Forestry is training more than 100 adults in custody (AICs) at South Fork Forest Camp to assist in this ...

Growing evidence points to human health effects from PFAS ... in the environment or human body and can accumulate over time.