The state’s controversial wildfire map may go. But the risk to communities won’t.

No matter where you live in Lane County, don’t discount your wildfire risk, said Timothy Ingalsbee, executive director of the Eugene-based Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology.

“Once it enters the city, what begins is house to house ignition, kind of like a chain nuclear reaction,” Ingalsbee said. “So that’s why even in the center of Eugene, we’re still vulnerable.”

With much of Eugene and Springfield categorized as low hazard in the wildfire map, he worries the map has given people a  “false sense of security” at a time when city resources are already stretched thin.