Oregon Department of Emergency Management

  • Disaster Mitigation
  • Disaster Preparedness
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Disaster Response

Who We Are

Oregon Department of Emergency Management coordinates and maintains a statewide emergency services system for emergency and disaster communications. Our responsibilities are defined and authorized in ORS 401. 

 
Response to emergencies or disasters that affect all or part of the state takes place at the local level, in the city or county in which the emergency or disaster occurs. In a large incident or one that affects multiple jurisdictions, OEM may support a coordinated response. The State Emergency Coordination Center (ECC) may be activated in a multi-jurisdictional emergency or disaster, and serve as a communications hub to ensure all participating response agencies are coordinated.
 
ODEM supports 18 Emergency Support Functions (ESFs) and more than 50 county, city and tribal local emergency management offices around the state.

What We Do

It is the mission of the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to lead collaborative state-wide efforts, inclusive of all partners and the communities we serve, to ensure capability to get help in an emergency and to protect, mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies or disasters regardless of cause.