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Oregon legislature repeals controversial wildfire hazard map

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday repealing the state’s controversial wildfire hazard maps. Senate Bill 83 repeals the maps and directs state agencies to create new defensible space standards that ...
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Colorado wildfire grows to one of largest in state history. See latest news and map

The Lee Fire now stands as the fifth largest recorded in Colorado history, growing to more than 113,000 acres over the weekend. Fire officials said in an Aug. 11 update that conditions could allow for significant fire activity and days of rapid growth ...
Oregonian

How rapid spread of misinformation pushed lawmakers to kill Oregon’s wildfire risk map

This story was originally published by ProPublica. This is how misinformation gets accepted as fact. A year after Oregon endures its most destructive fire season on record in 2020, state lawmakers order a map estimating the wildfire risk for every property ...
Santa Barbara Independent

Update: Madre Fire, California’s Largest Wildfire of the Year, Rapidly Grows to 70,800 Acres

[Update: Thu., July 3, 5:36pm] The Madre Fire has expanded to 52,593 acres as of 5:17 p.m. on Thursday, still with only 5 percent containment, according to CalFire. Now the largest fire of 2025 in the state, there are 303 total personnel including 39 ...