Prescribed burns

Fire managers on the Prescott National Forest's Bradshaw Ranger District are planning to begin ignitions Wednesday on debris piles in and near the Prescott Basin.

Smoke is visible today in the Flagstaff area due to a prescribed pile burn on the Coconino National Forest.

National forest officials in northern Arizona are taking advantage of wet and snowy conditions to conduct pile burns in the coming weeks.

Fire managers on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests plan to conduct a series of pile burns Friday.

Coconino National Forest officials say they’ll continue three large pile burns in the coming days.

The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management plans a large prescribed burn near Mormon Lake Thursday. The broadcast burn is likely to push smoke toward the northeast and shouldn’t affect the Mormon Lake community or Interstate 40.

Fire officials on the Prescott National Forest are conducting a series of debris pile burns Monday.

Officials on the Prescott National Forest plan multiple prescribed burns on Bradshaw and Verde ranger districts in the coming weeks.

Fire managers on the Verde Ranger District plan to burn more than 1,200 acres on Mingus Mountain near Mingus Springs Ranch and Kendall Peak starting Tuesday.

The National Forest Service's prescribed burn program was put on hold in May, 2022, pending evaluation in response to extreme climate conditions and a devastating government-sparked fire in New Mexico.