Prescribed fire operations continue around Lake Tahoe

The Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team will continue widespread prescribed fire operations this week in the Lake Tahoe Basin, if conditions and weather allow. Smoke may be visible.

1. Twin Peaks 49 - USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit - West River Park Drive and South Upper Truckee Road, Meyers, CA. Burn Type: Hand Piles.
Total Acreage: 20.00. Planned Ignition: 01/20-22/21. Duration of Ignition and Smoke Production: 5-7 days of ignition and 4 days of burn down time. Estimated Direction of Smoke Travel: North/Northeast/East Communities or Smoke Sensitive Areas: Smoke may be visible throughout the Tahoe Basin and surrounding communities and Christmas Valley/Meyers area.

2. Fountain 122 and 1122 - Responsible Agency: USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit - Location: Twin Peaks Area off Highway 50 west of the airport. Burn Type: Hand Piles. Total Acreage: 30.00. Planned Ignition: 01/19-22/21. Duration of Ignition and Smoke Production: 5-7 days of ignition and 4 days of burn down time. Estimated Direction of Smoke Travel: North/Northeast/East.
Communities or Smoke Sensitive Areas: Smoke may be visible throughout the Tahoe Basin and surrounding communities and South Lake Tahoe.

3. Panther 159 - Responsible Agency: USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit - Fallen Leaf Rd. and Highway 89, South Shore of Lake Tahoe. Burn Type: Hand Piles. Total Acreage: 5.00. Planned Ignition: 01/19/2021. Duration of Ignition and Smoke Production: 5-7 days of ignition and 2 days of burn down time
Estimated Direction of Smoke Travel: North/Northeast/East. Communities or Smoke Sensitive Areas: Smoke may be visible throughout the Tahoe Basin and surrounding communities and Fallen Leaf area.

4. Rubicon ULM - USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit - Amanda Lane and Highway 89, south of Meeks Bay, West Shore of Lake Tahoe. Burn Type: Hand Piles. Total Acreage: 3.00. Planned Ignition: 01/12-14/21. Duration of Ignition and Smoke Production: 1 day of ignition and extinquished each day.
Estimated Direction of Smoke Travel: North/Northeast/East. Communities or Smoke Sensitive Areas: Smoke may be visible throughout the Tahoe Basin and surrounding communities.

5. Brockway 1027, 27, and 30 - Responsible Agency: USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit - Carnelian Bay, Hwy. 28 and Carnelian Woods Ave., North Shore, Lake Tahoe. Burn Type: Hand Piles. Total Acreage: 65.00. Planned Ignition: 01/20-23/21. Duration of Ignition and Smoke Production: 5-7 days of ignition and 4 days of burn down time. Estimated Direction of Smoke Travel: North/Northeast/East
Communities or Smoke Sensitive Areas: Smoke may be visible throughout the Tahoe Basin and surrounding communities and Kings Beach/Carnelian Bay areas.

6. Griff - Responsible Agency: USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit - Beaver Street and Hwy 28, Kings Beach area, North Shore, Lake Tahoe. Burn Type: Hand Piles. Total Acreage: 12.00. Planned Ignition: 01/20-22/21. Duration of Ignition and Smoke Production: 5-7 days of ignition and 4 days of burn down time
Estimated Direction of Smoke Travel: North/Northeast/East. Communities or Smoke Sensitive Areas: Smoke may be visible throughout the Tahoe Basin and surrounding communities and Kings Beach/Carnelian Bay areas.

7. USFS (Rose 06, 1042, 42) - Responsible Agency: North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District - East of Fairview Blvd, south of SR431, Incline Village, NV. Burn Type: Hand Piles. Total Acreage: 72.00. Planned Ignition: 01/18-29/2021/ Duration of Ignition and Smoke Production: 1 day of ignition and 1 day of burn down time
Estimated Direction of Smoke Travel: North/Northeast/East. Communities or Smoke Sensitive Areas: Smoke may be visible throughout the Tahoe Basin and surrounding communities.

8. Nevada Regional - Responsible Agency: North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District - North of Sweetwater Road and east of Tomahawk Trail, Incline Village, NV. Burn Type: Hand Piles. Total Acreage: 65.00. Planned Ignition: 01/18-29/2021. Duration of Ignition and Smoke Production: 1 day of ignition and 1 day of burn down time
Estimated Direction of Smoke Travel: North/Northeast/East. Communities or Smoke Sensitive Areas: Smoke may be visible throughout the Tahoe Basin and surrounding communities.

9. Bliss - Responsible Agency: USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit - In the vicinity of the Chimney Beach Trailhead, East Shore, Lake Tahoe. Burn Type: Hand Piles. Total Acreage: 10.00. Planned Ignition: 01/19-22/21. Duration of Ignition and Smoke Production: 5-7 days of ignition and 2 days of burn down time. Estimated Direction of Smoke Travel: North/Northeast/East. Communities or Smoke Sensitive Areas: Smoke may be visible throughout the Tahoe Basin and surrounding communities and Glenbrook and Incline areas.

10. Spooner Park - Responsible Agency: Nevada Division of Forestry - Location: Vicinity of Spooner Lake extending one mile north to Wildcat Cabin, East Shore of Lake Tahoe. Burn Type: Hand Piles. Total Acreage: 362.00. Planned Ignition: 01/11-31/2021. Duration of Ignition and Smoke Production: 1-2 days per ignition. Estimated Direction of Smoke Travel: North/Northeast/. Communities or Smoke Sensitive Areas: Smoke may be visible on the East Shore of Lake Tahoe and surrounding areas.

11. USFS Secret Rx - Responsible Agency: Tahoe Douglas Fire District - Spooner Summit, NV. Burn Type: Hand Piles. Total Acreage: 10.00. Planned Ignition: 1/18/2021. Duration of Ignition and Smoke Production: 1-2 days of burn down time
Estimated Direction of Smoke Travel: North/Northeast/East. Communities or Smoke Sensitive Areas: Smoke may be visible from Glenbrook and Spooner Summit.

12. Van Sickle - Responsible Agency: Tahoe Douglas Fire District - Location: Van Sickle State Park, Stateline, CA. Burn Type: Hand Piles. Total Acreage: 10.00.
Planned Ignition: 01/18/2021. Duration of Ignition and Smoke Production: 1-2 days of burn down time. Estimated Direction of Smoke Travel: North/Northeast.
Communities or Smoke Sensitive Areas: Smoke may be visible from Round Hill, NV and Stateline NV/CA.

13. Heavenly ULM - Responsible Agency: USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit - Vicinity of Heavenly Ski Resort, Saddle Rd. and Keller Rd, South Lake Tahoe. Burn Type: Hand Piles.. Total Acreage: 20.00. Planned Ignition: 01/12-18/21. Duration of Ignition and Smoke Production: 5-7 days of ignition and 2 days of burn down time. Estimated Direction of Smoke Travel: North/Northeast/East.
Communities or Smoke Sensitive Areas: Smoke may be visible throughout the Tahoe Basin and surrounding communities.

To view real-time smoke, visit http://www.alertwildfire.org/tahoe/.

A map with project locations and detailed information is available for viewing at https://www.tahoelivingwithfire.com/get-informed/. Sign-up to receive email prescribed fire notifications by sending a request to pa_ltbmu@fs.fed.us.

Prescribed fire managers use different methods to reintroduce fire back into our forests that include pile burning and understory burning. Pile burning is intended to remove excess fuels (branches, limbs and stumps) that can feed unwanted wildfires and involves burning slash piles that are constructed by hand and mechanical equipment. Understory burning is low intensity prescribed fire that takes place on the ground (the understory) rather than pile burning. Understory burning uses a controlled application of fire to remove excess vegetation under specific environmental conditions that allow fire to be confined to a predetermined area. Understory burning produces fire behavior and fire characteristics required to attain planned fire and resource management objectives.