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Coconino National Forest firefighters are planning to take advantage of favorable weather conditions next week and have tentatively planned a large fire treatment on the Red Rock Ranger District, as well as pile burns on the Flagstaff Ranger District.

Coconino National Forest firefighters are planning to take advantage of favorable weather conditions tomorrow for a prescribed burn on the Mogollon Rim Ranger District, approximately 11 miles northeast of the Blue Ridge Ranger Station.

Bar-T-Bar Burn

Update at 2/22/21 10:48 a.m.: Fire officials have postponed prescribed burns on the Pleasant Valley Ranger District due to unfavorable weather conditions. The burns were planned for the southeast side of the 512 Road (also known as the Young Road) between mileposts 315 and 318, Feb. 23-24. The prescribed fire treatments will be rescheduled for the following week pending optimal weather conditions.

For information updates contact the Payson/Pleasant Valley District Ranger Station at (928) 474-7900 or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

The Coconino National Forest has planned several hand pile burns scheduled to start the morning of Friday, Jan. 22.

Firefighters responded to a smoke report on Sunday, January 17, 2021 on the Verde Ranger District.  The 1200-acre Sour Fire which is now 20% contained is burning in brush and grass approximately 4 miles west of I-17, north of HWY 169 and just east of Cherry Creek Road (T13N, R3E, Sec 6).

Fire crews on the Williams Ranger District on the Kaibab National Forest will be igniting about 320 acres of machine piles beginning Thursday morning of this week along the south side of forest road 141 just east of Highway 64 and  the Red Lakes area near Hardy Hill.

Snowy weather conditions are forecasted to arrive in the local area Wednesday night providing ideal conditions to eliminate these large piles in the area. Operations are expected to last a single day and be completed on this unit of piles by late Thursday afternoon.

Coconino County Public Works, in conjunction with the U.S. Forest Service
(USFS), has ignited the annual green waste burn at the Willard Springs Transfer Station located
17 miles south of Flagstaff at Exit 326 on the west side of I-17. This is USFS’s first burn since the COVID-19 pandemic began last winter.