Prescribed Fire

Significant moisture received over the past month has created ideal conditions to allow fuels reduction work to resume on the Kaibab National Forest using prescribed fire and pile burning methods as fall and winter approaches.

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.

 As a joint effort on this large, prescribed burn project southwest of Flagstaff, Coconino National Forest and Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management plan to conduct a 4,500-acre burn tomorrow through Friday to reduce forest fuels and reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires.

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

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.

Prescribed fire planned across the forests

The Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests is currently working to begin prescribed fire operations beginning May 22 through June 10, 2023. The following prescribed fires will be initiated if conditions and approvals allow:

Fire crews began ignitions on the Reed Prescribed Fire Project Monday, which is located approximately three miles east of the town of Tusayan on the Tusayan Ranger District of the Kaibab National Forest.

The Coconino National Forest plans to conduct several prescribed fires over the coming weeks while weather conditions are favorable.

Seasonal prescribed burns will kick off if conditions are within the ranges outlined in the burn plan the morning of April 26 on the Flagstaff Ranger District (FRD) with the Horseshoe Burn Project.

Fire officials are planning a prescribed fire operation on the Mesa Ranger District, April 25-29, 2023. There is a closure order in place for the affected area. 

Fire specialists will be burning a prescribed fire unit on the west and east sides of Forest Road 357 on the slopes of Comet Mountain near the community of Queen Valley. 

Fire officials are planning a prescribed fire operation on the Pleasant Valley Ranger District, April 26-28, 2023.

Fire specialists will be burning a prescribed fire unit north of Nail Ranch along Forest Road 512, a total of 938 acres of broadcast burning of pine needles and brush.