Fire Restrictions in Place
May 29, 2026
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.
Prohibited Activities
The following acts are prohibited until further notice:
- Igniting, building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire or stove fire (using wood, charcoal or any other material) outside of developed campgrounds, picnic or designated areas where fire rings and other approved fire enclosures are provided and accessible. Portable stoves using gas, jellied petroleum or pressurized liquid fuel are allowed.
- Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or area cleared of flammable vegetation.
- Welding or operating an acetylene torch with open flames, except by permit.
- Using, or causing to be used, any explosive, except by permit.
- Discharge, use, or allowing the use of fireworks, tracer rounds, steel-core ammunition, explosive targets, or any other incendiary device.
- Operating a motor vehicle or combustion engine equipment without a spark arrestor anywhere other than on existing paved, gravel or dirt roads.
- Operating a vehicle or other motorized equipment in wildland areas without a fire extinguisher, shovel and at least one gallon of water.
Parks Under Fire Restrictions: UPDATED Oct. 1, 2026
- Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park
- Cave Rock State Park
- Dayton State Park
- Fort Churchill State Park
- Lahontan State Recreation Area
- Mormon Station State Historic Park
- Rye Patch State Recreation Area
- Sand Harbor State Park
- Spooner Lake State Park
- Spring Mountain Ranch State Park
- Walker River State Recreation Area
- ward Charcoal Ovens
- Washoe Lake State Park
