Oregon Department of Forestry has been inundated with complaints after releasing a map of wildfire risk on every tax lot in the state. The Oregon Wildfire Risk Explorer map, created by Oregon State ...

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Limited funding has made it hard for states to keep their wildfire risk maps up to date, even as global warming increases the danger. For years, Colorado’s wildfire risk map was so inaccurate that ...

Flood risk maps are an essential public good. Indeed, many countries like the United Kingdom already offer flood risk mapping. Canada committed to a public flood risk mapping portal in the 2023 budget ...