prescribed burn

The Alpine Ranger District on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests is planning to begin the Pace Creek Pile Burning project on January 5th through the end of February. Piles consist of leftover debris from recent timber sales, as well as slash deposited in the community burn pit. All ignitions are weather dependent.

Coconino County Public Works, in conjunction with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), will ignite the annual green waste burn at the Willard Springs Green Waste Station, located 17 miles south of Flagstaff at Exit 326 on the west side of Interstate 17 (I-17), by Tuesday, December 14, 2021 The Willard Springs green waste burn is expected to produce smoke during the ignition period, which will last approximately three weeks. Based on wind and weather conditions, smoke may be heavy at times and visible to motorists on I-17.

Prescribed fire pile burning will commence across the south zone of the Kaibab National Forest for the remainder of this month on both the Williams and Tusayan Ranger Districts. 

Winter weather with forecasted snow present excellent opportunities every year for fire crews to burn and consume piled slash and woody debris left over from previous forest restoration projects.

For the month of December, approximately 450 acres of piles near Tusayan are planned for burning with an additional 60 acres on the Williams Ranger District.

The Lakeside Ranger District is planning to begin the Marsh Prescribed Burn project over the next two weeks (December 7th – December 17th).

The Marsh Project encompasses multiple small marsh ponds totaling 25 acres, which are located West of highway 77, approximately 2 miles North of the Showlow City Limits.

Smoke from this project is expected to be visible the day of the burn and dissipate is 24 to 48 hours depending on the weather. Caution should be used when traveling in the area.

Flagstaff Ranger District fire managers will be conducting a prescribed burn treatment south of Flagstaff on Monday (Dec. 6) to improve forest health and restoration efforts. This effort will provide strategic, vital protection to adjacent private inholdings southwest of the Flagstaff metropolitan area for a locality particularly vulnerable to wildfire. 

A series of prescribed fire projects will begin Tuesday, November 30 and continue throughout the week at various locations across the North Kaibab Ranger District on the Kaibab National Forest. Approximately 6000 acres are scheduled to be ignited at the following specific locations beginning Monday, November 30, and continuing through Sunday, December 5.

Tonto National Forest fire specialists will be conducting a 15,000-acre broadcast burn on the Pleasant Valley Ranger District starting Tuesday, Nov. 30 through Monday, Dec. 6, 2021.

Fire crews on the ground assisted by a helicopter, will be conducting the large broadcast burn north of Pleasant Valley and south of the Naeglin Rim, along the 512 and 128 Roads and to the east of the Pleasant Valley Airport. Residents and visitors to the area can expect to see and smell moderate-to-heavy amounts of smoke during the seven-day prescribed burn operation.

 Fire managers with the Flagstaff Ranger District plan to conduct two prescribed burn treatments in areas southwest and southeast of Flagstaff next week in effort to maintain and restore healthier forest conditions while creating buffers between communities and the forest.

Starting the week of November 15, the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management begins ignitions to 400 acres of the Flagstaff Wildland Urban Interface Observatory Blocks Prescribed Burn.

The Flagstaff WUI Observatory Rx Burn is part of a larger scale, 750-acre project, approximately six miles west of Flagstaff, southwest of Observatory Mesa, and south of Interstate 40. The projected, multi-day burn begins Monday afternoon and is weather dependent.

Multiple districts on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests are planning prescribed burns over the next two weeks (November 8th to November 21st). Prescription burn projects are being planned for the following locations:

Alpine Ranger District

• Wallow West Unit Four Rx Project, location is FR 25 South to the Black River and West of FR25 to FR 25G on the East. Project was burned successfully, monitoring will continue.

Springerville Ranger District