prescribed burn

Mogollon Rim Ranger District fire managers have cancelled today’s Sawmill Project southwest of Mormon Lake due to unfavorable wind conditions that would negatively impact powerlines, the highway, and surrounding communities.

The National Park Service will conduct two prescribed burns near Willow Beach, Arizona, on Monday, November 6. The first burn pile is approximately 1/4-mile northeast of the employee housing, near Willow Beach Fish Hatchery. The second burn pile is  200 yards up the Jumbo Wash access road, south of Willow Beach Ranger Station. The roads adjacent to the piles may experience short-term impacts, but closures are not expected. 

Fire managers on the Williams and Tusayan Ranger District are planning to kick off the fall prescribed fire season this week, starting with the Kendrick Prescribed Fire Project. 3712 acres are planned for treatments that will begin just southeast of Spring Valley, east of FR141, north of FR100, and south of FR786. Pending favorable conditions, crews anticipate beginning ignitions on Wednesday morning October 4. This operation is expected to be completed in 3 days.

The Bureau of Land Management’s Phoenix District is planning prescribed burning operations to burn cut and piled brush from public lands west of Lake Pleasant. Burning may occur over multiple days in September as conditions allow. Crews will burn one acre of piles on the west side of Lake Pleasant, about three miles north of State Route 74.   

Fire Managers on the Prescott National Forest plan to take advantage of the moisture received over the last few weeks and burn debris piles near Camp Wood and Connell Mountain located northwest of Prescott on the Chino Valley Ranger District.  Ignitions are planned to start on Saturday, August 19, 2023, and will continue as conditions remain favorable.  Smoke impacts are expected to be light in the vicinity of Yolo Ranch area, Camp Wood Road (County Road 68) and Forest Service Road 9.  As nighttime temperatures cool smoke can linger in drainages and valleys.

Fire managers in the Chino Valley Ranger District are looking for opportunities to treat fuels across the district at several locations in the Chino Landscape Project Area (see the map below). Prescribed fire operations are planned to start as early as Sunday, July 23, 2023, and continue through Sunday, August 6, 2023. Fire managers plan to use a variety of ground and aerial resources to meet the project objectives.

The Flagstaff Ranger District of the Coconino National Forest plans to conduct a 1,332-acre prescribed burn this week northwest of Flagstaff as part of the Wildfire Crisis Strategy, which seeks to restore healthier forest conditions fire-dependent ecosystems.

Prescribed fire continuing on Kendrick and Blue Stem Rx projects this week on Kaibab National Forest

The Coconino National Forest plans to continue work on two prescribed burn projects this week that will help restore healthier conditions to the forest and fire-dependent ecosystems.

Prescribed burns will be canceled if weather conditions – such as temperature, wind or humidity – do not meet the criteria outlined in the burn plans.

Horseshoe Burn project:

Beginning Wednesday, May 31, Kaibab National Forest fire managers plan to re-initiate prescribed fire treatments on the Three Sisters Prescribed Fire Project located just north of the City of Williams and Interstate 40, east of forest road 124, and west of Airport Road and Highway 64. This project has been inactive since crews completed treatments on 2241 acres in the fall of 2019.