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Senate repeals wildfire hazard map, keeps defensible-space standards and reporting changes
Summary
The Oregon Senate passed Senate Bill 83 to remove the wildfire hazard map and related map-driven requirements while retaining defensible-space guidance, altering reporting frequencies, and removing a map question from the standard real-estate disclosure form.
The Oregon Senate on Monday passed Senate Bill 83, which removes the wildfire hazard map and associated map‑driven requirements from state wildfire law while preserving defensible‑space guidance, altered reporting schedules and other program elements.
Senator Golden, who presented the legislation, said the map assignment process ‘can't work’ because it assigned hazard designations without accounting for property‑specific characteristics. “A mapping model that assigns a hazard designation to a property without factoring in anything about the specific characteristics that exist on that property can't work,” Golden said on the floor.
The bill removes the map and…
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