Oregon's statewide Wildfire Risk Map and the mapped hazard zones were repealed by SB 83 in July 2025. Lane County no longer has state-mandated wildfire hazard zones; local jurisdictions may now define their own hazard areas and adopt or decline defensible-space and ignition-resistant rules.
Under SB 762 (2021), Oregon assigned every property a wildfire risk class and created a Wildfire-Urban Interface map that triggered building and defensible-space requirements. Senate Bill 83, signed July 24, 2025, repealed the statewide Wildfire Risk Map along with the associated building requirements, defensible-space requirements, and property disclosures, and returned regulatory authority to local governments. In Lane County, this means there is no longer a state-imposed wildfire hazard zone controlling construction or landscaping. Large rural and forested areas of the county remain genuinely fire-prone, and local land-use, forest-zoning, and dwelling-siting rules under ORS Chapter 215 still apply. The State Fire Marshal is developing a model code that cities and counties may voluntarily adopt.
No statewide wildfire-zone construction penalty currently applies; enforcement depends on any hazard standards a local jurisdiction chooses to adopt.
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Lane County allows residential backyard composting and actively promotes it through its Waste Management program. There is no compost permit for home use, bu...
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Lane County has no ordinance regulating, requiring, or banning artificial turf for residential landscaping. Ground-cover choice is unregulated on ordinary lo...
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Lane County does not require homeowners to plant native species, and the noxious-vegetation code exempts nothing based on native status. In forest and ripari...
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Rainwater harvesting is legal statewide. ORS 537.141 exempts collecting precipitation from an artificial impervious surface, like a rooftop, from Oregon's wa...
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Oregon has no statewide homeowner lawn-watering ban, and Lane County sets no county-wide outdoor-watering schedule. Restrictions come from your local water u...
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Lane Code 9.057.574 defines weeds more than ten inches high as "noxious vegetation," along with poison oak or ivy, tansy ragwort, thistle, and encroaching bl...
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