PORTLAND (AP) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has revised the number of levees at risk of failing in Oregon from 14 to just five.

The corps reviewed the status of levees after Freedom of Information Act requests filed by news organizations, including The Associated Press, and revised the number in Oregon, which had ranked second after California for levees at risk in initial figures released earlier this week.

According to the latest list, California still led the nation, now with 37 suspect levees, but Washington state was second with 19.

“As a result of that request, headquarters sent folks out to the field to ensure accuracy,” said Matt Rabe, corps spokesman at the regional office in Portland. “And as a result, we went from 14 down to five.”

There are 50 diking or drainage districts in the federal inspection program in Oregon, and 36 in the nonfederal program, Rabe said Thursday.

He said the total number was revised from a figure he provided earlier this week after a review of a spreadsheet listing federal and nonfederal levees.

The federal program covers levees that were built or improved by the corps, while those in the nonfederal inspection program have to be maintained to corps standards, Rabe said.

“The idea is that, as new information is made available, we will update it, so any new list that comes out may be different from an earlier list,” Rabe said. “Levee safety is on everybody's radar nowadays, so the goal is to bring all these structures up to pristine conditions.”

The five districts in Oregon with levees at risk are: Clatsop County Drainage District No. 1; Clatsop County Diking District No. 9; Sunset Drainage District in Nehalem; Svensen Island Diking District in Clatsop County; and a district in Milton-Freewater in northeastern Oregon.