CALLING ALL Oregonians to push back on over regulating BIG Government tyranny.
Opinion: This wildfire map meeting with Oregon has the potential to increase rural fire insurance by x3 – x4 the current amount and in some cases restrict people from buying and selling rural property as residential property. This is a poor and back door effort to remove people from living in rural areas and punish conservative counties.
Wildfire Map is being released on July 18. This map will be available at the Oregon Explorer website. https://hazardmap.forestry.oregonstate.edu/ Release of this map will also start a 30 day period to comment on the map. A change from the original map is change Risk to Hazard and combine the Extreme Risk and High Risk areas into High Hazard. The Low Risk and No Risk areas are being combined into Low Hazard areas so there will only be three categories. The State has said that lands within the High Hazard and Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) are identified as subject to the mandatory rules on Defensive Space and Home Hardening. The State also has said that properties that have irrigated lands were reviewed and may change Hazard categories as the hazard could reduce fire intensity or probability. The irrigation review must still be adopted by the Board of Forestry at their meeting on September 4, 2024.