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
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 2
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: UPDATED JULY 1, 2025
Beaver Dam State Park
Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park
Cathedral Gorge State Park
Cave Lake State Park
Elgin Schoolhouse
Echo Canyon State Park
Fort Churchill State Historic Park
Kershaw-Ryan State Park
Lahontan State Recreation Area
Mormon Station State Historic Park
Rye Patch State Recreation Area
South Fork State Recreation Area
Spring Valley State Park
Walker River State Recreation Area
Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park
Wild Horse State Recreation Area
Parks Under Stage 2 Fire Restrictions:UPDATED JUNE 20, 2025
Big Bend of the Colorado State Recreation Area
Ice Age Fossils State Park
Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Site
Spring Mountain Ranch State Park
Valley of Fire State Park
Washoe Lake State Park