Fire Restrictions
Nevada State Parks is committed to protecting all residents and visitors through fostering wildfire-resilient landscapes and communities. We encourage visitors to recreate safely and responsibly to help prevent wildfires, protect lives and property, and preserve our precious natural wonders that we all love.
Each State Park or State Recreation Area may impose more stringent restrictions when they determine that the conditions warrant them. The State Park or State Recreation Area may not, however, be less restrictive.
Learn more about fire restrictions, here.
Understanding Fire Restrictions
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STAGE 1
The following acts are prohibited until further notice:
- 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).
- 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.
- Operating or parking a vehicle or other motorized equipment over or on top of dried/cured vegetation.
- Welding, metal grinding, or operating an acetylene or other torch with open flame (except by permit).
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STAGE II
The following acts are prohibited until further notice:
- 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.
- 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.
- Operating motorized vehicles off existing roads.
- Welding, metal grinding, or operating an acetylene or other torch with open flame (except by permit).
- The following acts are prohibited from 1:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
- Operating a chainsaw or other equipment powered by an internal combustion engine for felling, bucking, skidding, yarding, processing, road building and woodcutting during industrial operations or firewood gathering.
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Parks Under Stage 1 Fire Restrictions:
Big Bend of the Colorado State Recreation Area
Parks Under Stage 2 Fire Restrictions:
All restrictions have been lifted as of November 25, 2024.
Other:
Tahoe Basin campfire restrictions remain in effect as of November 25, 2024: "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)."
