BEND, Ore. (AP) — A fire official says a wildfire risk map being created by Deschutes County, the home of Bend, Oregon, underestimates fire danger because it doesn’t take into account the danger when ...

Screenshot of Bend as depicted on the state's new wildfire hazard map. Green represents low hazard classification, purple is moderate and orange is high. Nearly four years ago, in the aftermath of the ...

A massive wildfire had charred more than 2,415 acres in central Oregon as of Wednesday morning, a rapid increase from 1,700 acres Tuesday evening, authorities said. The Darlene 3 Fire was 30% ...

Nearly one million acres in Oregon have burned as 38 large wildfires remain uncontrolled across the state, including one of the nation's largest wildland fires. The majority of the blazes have been ...

Deschutes County won’t join others that have asked the state to walk back its map assigning a wildfire hazard level to every tax lot in Oregon — but the map has caught plenty of heat from rural ...

New Oregon radon data out Tuesday show many regions of the state at moderate risk of high radon levels, with several pockets of high-risk areas around the Willamette Valley and in eastern and southern ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Democratic state Senator Anthony Broadman of Bend on Thursday joined a recent call by Republican lawmakers to repeal the state's revised wildfire hazard map, saying it doesn't ...