No Tigard property is currently designated as a high-hazard parcel inside the Wildland-Urban Interface on the Oregon Statewide Wildfire Hazard Map. The State Fire Marshal defensible-space code under OAR 837-046 and Oregon R327 hardened-construction rules therefore do not apply in Tigard, though SW Tigard hillsides have elevated local risk.
Oregon adopted a statewide wildfire-hazard map developed by OSU that assigns each property to low, moderate, or high hazard and overlays a Wildland-Urban Interface boundary. Only parcels both inside the WUI and on a high-hazard property are subject to the State Fire Marshal defensible-space code (OAR 837-046) and Oregon R327 hardened-construction rules. The published map does not classify any Tigard property as both high hazard and inside the WUI, so defensible-space inspection and R327 do not apply here. The City of Tigard Annex G of the 2023 Washington County NHMP flags southwestern Tigard slopes (Bull Mountain) as having elevated exposure. Primary tools remain TMC Title 6 noxious-vegetation enforcement and TVF&R burn restrictions.
Because no Tigard parcels are mapped high-hazard inside the WUI, no defensible-space citations issue under ORS 477 or OAR 837-046. Vegetation fire-hazard issues are enforced under TMC Title 6 as Class 1 infractions.
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