LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – Prescribed fire operations continue this week in the Lake Tahoe Basin and will continue as long as conditions allow.

On the schedule to wrap up January’s projects and begin those scheduled for February:

1/27 – 1/30, Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District – Edgewood pile burning project continues for 16 acres near Stateline (Casino Corridor)

2/2 – 2/6, Nevada Division of Forestry – 5 acres of pile burning continue for the Spooner Pile Burn Project near Spooner Lake in Backcountry State Park

2/3 – 2/6, Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District – 3 acres of continued pile burning along Daggett Summit for the Kingsbury Grade project

2/3 – 2/6, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit – 10 acres of piles will be burned east of Highway 50 and South of Logan Creek Dr. for the Logan HT 40 project

2/10, California State Parks – 20 acres of pile burning at Ward Creek State Park near Rideout School and Timberland Lane

February 2026, California State Parks – Sugar Pine Pile Burning project will prescribe burn piles around Day Use, Campground, and North Fire Road

Winter 2026, California Tahoe Conservancy – Carnelian Canyon, Dollar SW, and Tahoe Pines pile burning projects are set to begin in Winter 2026

The schedule can change, so follow the daily map for current information at https://www.tahoelivingwithfire.com/get-informed/lake-tahoe-basin-prescribed-fire-project-map/

From the Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team: The most destructive wildfires burn in the treetops, moving from tree to tree. These “crown fires” are extremely hard to control and often cause high tree mortality and severe landscape damage. Prescribed fire reduces the brush and smaller trees, known as ladder fuels, that can carry flames from the ground into the canopy of a forest.  

By removing those ladder fuels, prescribed fire helps prevent those catastrophic crown fires. It’s a proactive approach that breaks the chain of fuels that feed extreme wildfire, makes the landscape more resilient to wildfire, and improves firefighter safety when emergency response is needed.