The Oregon House voted unanimously in support of a bill "to create flexibility for property owners trying to rebuild following last year’s devastating wildfires." Lawmakers said House Bill 2289 "will remove barriers in the permitting process, and allow property owners to rebuild with reasonable alterations to the previous structure without needing to go back through the entire permitting process." Thousands of homes were destroyed in fires in the Cascades and southern Oregon amid dry, hot conditions - and unusually strong east winds - around Labor Day 2020. The Holiday Farm Fire impacted communities in the McKenzie River corridor; farther south, residents of the North Umpqua River area faced the Archie Creek Fire east of Roseburg.