State partners with insurance industry to help Oregon homeowners with wildfire

New phase of wildfire resilience work completed in Southeast Oregon – Burns Times-Herald

Crews have completed another phase of wildfire prevention work in the Stinkingwater Mountains, removing overgrown juniper trees across more than 1,100 acres of public land administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The effort is part of the Southeast Oregon Wildfire Resiliency Project, a long-term strategy aimed at reducing the risk of large, destructive wildfires while improving the health of Eastern Oregon’s sagebrush steppe. The rec…

State partners with insurance industry to help Oregon homeowners with wildfire

State Fire Marshal Mariana Ruiz-Temple signed a memorandum of agreement Friday with Roy Wright, CEO of the South Carolina-based Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety, which oversees the “Wildfire Prepared” certification program. The program offers homeowners in California, and now Oregon, certificates for undertaking specific wildfire prevention work around their homes. In turn, insurer...