Tualatin is an urbanized Willamette Valley city in Washington and Clackamas Counties; the Oregon Statewide Wildfire Hazard Map (finalized by the Oregon Department of Forestry and Oregon State University in 2024 under SB 762) classifies most developed Tualatin parcels in the low to moderate hazard range. Tualatin is not on the Oregon Department of Forestry's list of high-hazard wildland-urban interface communities, and there is no Tualatin Municipal Code chapter establishing locally adopted defensible-space zones beyond the noxious vegetation duties in TMC Chapter 6-04.
Wildfire-hazard regulation in Oregon is now driven by Senate Bill 762 (2021) and the resulting Oregon Statewide Wildfire Hazard Map produced by Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of Forestry (final maps adopted in late 2024 / early 2025). The map places every property in Oregon into a 'low,' 'moderate,' or 'high' wildfire hazard zone, and the Oregon Office of State Fire Marshal applies new defensible-space and home-hardening building-code standards only to parcels that are both high-hazard AND inside the mapped wildland-urban interface (WUI). Tualatin is a fully urbanized city in the Willamette Valley; the City of Tualatin has not adopted a separate wildfire-zone overlay in the Tualatin Development Code, and Tualatin is not listed as a high-hazard WUI community by ODF. Property owners can confirm their individual hazard rating by entering their address into the Oregon Wildfire Hazard Map at hazardmap.forestry.oregonstate.edu. Where local fire-hazard duties exist, they are imposed through TMC Chapter 6-04 (noxious vegetation maintenance from March 1 through October 31) and through TVF&R's outdoor-burning, recreational-fire, and burn-ban rules under the Oregon Fire Code.
Because Tualatin has no locally adopted wildfire-zone ordinance, there is no city-specific defensible-space violation. Instead, owners can be cited under TMC Chapter 6-04 for failing to abate noxious vegetation that creates a fire hazard, and under TVF&R rules (Oregon Fire Code) for unsafe outdoor fires or burn-ban violations. Statewide defensible-space requirements under SB 762 apply only if a parcel is classified as high-hazard within the mapped WUI.
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