An Oregon Climate Assessment released Wednesday, highlights the need for more wildfire preparedness, how the state’s weather ...

As wildfire awareness month comes to an end, state and federal officials are ringing alarm bells for what appears increasingly likely to be a busy wildfire season in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.

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 out ...

There’s one thing about wildfires that Oregon lawmakers seem to agree on: The state needs to find new ways to cover its increasingly expensive wildfire costs. Yet halfway through this year’s ...

Gov. Tina Kotek has thrown her support for using Oregon’s “kicker” tax refund to infuse $1 billion into fighting wildfires. Lawmakers have struggled for years to come up with a new stream of revenue ...

Following outcry from rural Oregon property owners faced with stricter building codes and fewer insurers willing to write fire policies, Governor Tina Kotek has signed two measures to address wildfire ...

It’s been a mostly quiet season for wildfires in Oregon this summer, but that could change in a big way over the next week. Extremely hot temperatures combined with dry winds from the east will ramp ...

Wildfire season is off to an early and intense start in Oregon this year, with more than 20,000 acres already burned and dozens of homes lost, mostly east of the Cascades. As fires are expected to ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – May is Wildfire Awareness Month. Oregon experiences its heaviest wildfire activity during the summer months, but fires can occur at any time of year, including spring. Keep Oregon ...

December 2025 brought an unusual sight to Oregon’s Central Cascades, bare slopes, quiet ski lodges, and rain instead of snow.

Forecasts show above-normal wildfire danger statewide by August. National Weather Service short-staffed after Trump-era cuts. Fewer weather balloon launches mean less accurate forecasts. EPA recently ...