Fire Restrictions

Fire Restrictions:

Stage 1 Fire Restrictions in effect for Western Nevada June 19th, 2025

This includes all Dept of Interior Lands, Humboldt-Toiyabe Bridgeport Ranger District and Nevada Division of Forestry. 

Stage 1 Fire restrictions prohibit the following until further notice:
l. Building, maintaining, attending, or using a fire (using wood, charcoal or any other material), campfire, or stove fire except a portable stove using gas, jellied petroleum, or pressurized liquid fuel outside of a developed fee campground or picnic area (except by permit).
2. Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed recreation site, or when stopped in an area at least 3 feet in diameter that is barren or cleared; of all flammable material.
3. Operating or parking a vehicle or other motorized equipment over or on top of dried/cured vegetation.
4. Welding, metal grinding, or operating an acetylene or other torch with open flame (except by permit).

Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, Contact: Lisa Ross, 775-885-6107, lross@blm.gov

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest: Contact: Erica Hupp, 775-355-5311

Bureau of Indian Affairs, Western Nevada Agency, Contact: Dan Gustafson, 775-887-3521, dgustafson@blm.gov

Bureau of Reclamation, Contact: Mary Lee Knecht, 916-978-5100, mknecht@usbr.gov

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Contact: Carl Lunderstadt, 775-423-5128, carl_lunderstadt@fws.gov

Nevada Division of Forestry, Western Region, Contact: Cynara M. Medina, 775-684-2502, cmmedina@forestry.nv.gov 

Nevada Fire Info- Current Fire Restrictions