With the new draft map, Oregonians can look up specific tax lots to see how susceptible they are ... Ore., on Jun. 26, 2024. A new map shows the vulnerability to wildfire of specific Oregon tax lots.

ODF estimates about 900,000 tax lots may be within the wildland-urban interface, and about 230,000 of those tax lots may be classified as being at extreme or high risk of wildfire.

4.4% of Oregon’s land area is in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), which includes 956,496 tax lots. 120,276 tax lots in Oregon are in the WUI and in high or extreme risk classifications.

In Oregon, the new building and so-called defensible space codes will affect only about 106,000 tax lots. But experts say that’s an important step in identifying and protecting fire-prone areas ...

In the original map, a total of 120,276 tax lots would have been subject to the new regulations, compared to 106,000 this ...

Out of a total number of 1.8 million tax lots in Oregon, ODF and OSU currently estimate the map will identify: 4.4% of Oregon’s land area is in the wildland-urban interface, which includes ...

The map categorizes all of Oregon’s 1.9 million property tax lots into one of three wildfire hazard zones: low, moderate, or high. It also indicates whether a tax lot falls within the boundaries ...