LAS VEGAS, NV – Due to increased fire danger, Stage 1 Fire Restrictions will begin Friday May 29, 2026, in Southern Nevada. These restrictions apply to land within or managed by the following agencies, counties, and municipalities. See specific jurisdictions below.

• Counties: Clark County and portions of Nye County.
• Agencies: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Clark County Fire Department, Henderson Fire Department, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue, Mesquite Fire & Rescue, Moapa Valley Fire District, Mount Charleston Fire & Rescue, National Park Service, Nevada Division of Forestry, North Las Vegas Fire, Nye County Department of Emergency Management (Pahrump), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Wildland Fire Service.

“Last year in Southern Nevada, over 90% of fires on public lands were caused by humans. Most of these fires were accidental and preventable,” said Shane Kelly, Fire Prevention Specialist for the U.S. Wildland Fire Service. “Before you head outdoors this summer, check for fire restrictions. Simple actions like maintaining your vehicle to avoid sparks and not target shooting on hot, windy days can help prevent wildfires. Extinguish your campfires before leaving them.”

Stage 1 fire restrictions prohibit:

• Building, maintaining, attending, or using a fire (wood, charcoal, or any other material), campfire, or stove fire*. Except by permit or when in a developed fee campground or picnic area.
• *Following stoves permitted: 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 or parking vehicles 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).

Stage 1 restrictions are in effect in Southern Nevada May 29, 2026, until rescinded.

Jurisdictions with Specific Restrictions

Agencies may have additional restrictions or exemptions. Fire restrictions may be entirely different in other parts of Nevada. Always check an area’s specific restrictions before visiting. The public is urged to reach out to agencies with questions using the hyperlinks below and visit NevadaFireInfo.org/restrictions for a map of current restrictions, and questions and answers.

Bureau of Land Management – Southern Nevada District

Year-round restrictions prohibit (in addition to stage 1 restrictions):

• Possessing, discharging, using, or allowing the use of fireworks, pyrotechnic or incendiary devices.
• Possessing, discharging, igniting, or causing explosives or explosive material to burn, including binary explosive targets.
• Discharging a firearm using tracer, incendiary, or steel-component ammunition.
• Operating or using any internal or external combustion engine without a properly installed and maintained spark arresting device in effective working order.

Clark County Moapa Valley Fire Protection District, Mesquite Fire Rescue, and Mount Charleston Fire & Rescue

• Possessing, discharging, using, or allowing the use of fireworks, pyrotechnic or incendiary devices.
• Possessing, discharging, igniting, or causing to burn; explosives or explosive material, including binary explosive targets.
• Discharging a firearm using tracer, incendiary, or steel-component ammunition. [Use of tracer or incendiary ammunition are always prohibited on public lands].
• Operating or using any internal or external combustion engine without a spark arresting devise properly installed, maintained and in effective working order.

Henderson Fire Department

• The possession, manufacture, storage, sale, handling, and use of fireworks are prohibited except for consumer “safe and sane” fireworks. Visit Fireworks Safety | Henderson, NV for additional information and permitted uses of “safe & sane” fireworks within the City of Henderson
• Explosives, explosive materials, or fireworks offered or exposed for sale, stored, possessed, or used in violation of the “Safe and Sane” exception will be removed or disposed of in an approved manner, at the expense of the owner.

Las Vegas Fire & Rescue

• Possessing, discharging, using, or allowing the use of fireworks, pyrotechnic, or incendiary devices is prohibited. Visit http://www.youlightitwewriteit.vegas for additional information about permitted uses of “Safe & Sane” fireworks within local jurisdictions. Note that Safe & Sane fireworks use is only permitted from June 28th until Midnight on July 4th.
• Open recreational or ceremonial bonfires (not contained within an enclosed fireplace or portable fire pit with a spark screen installed) are restricted. Trash and waste burning are always prohibited within the city of Las Vegas’s jurisdiction.
• Use of charcoal or other ‘open flame’ type cooking devices is prohibited on balconies and within 10 feet of any building or combustible structure.

Please contact LVFirePrevention@lasvegasnevada.gov or 702-229-0366 for more information.

National Park Service – Lake Mead National Recreation Area

• Wood or charcoal fires are allowed in grills at developed picnic areas and campgrounds where a host is present.
• Wood or charcoal burning devices are allowed on the shoreline where natural vegetation is at least 100 feet away.
• Barbecue grills are allowed on private boats outside Lake Mead and Lake Mohave harbors when vessels are at least 100 feet away from shoreline vegetation.
• Smoking is allowed per Stage 1 restrictions described above. Cigarettes must be discarded in an ashtray at a developed area or in a car.

National Park Service – Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

• Fires are never permitted.

Nevada Division of Forestry

The fire restrictions listed below apply to all Nevada State Parks and Recreation Areas in Clark County, Nevada, as listed: Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort, Valley of Fire, Spring Mountain Ranch, Ice Age Fossils, and Big Bend of the Colorado State Recreation Area. Park staff may or may not allow campfires on a day-to-day basis based on current weather conditions, such as a Red Flag Warning.

The following acts are prohibited

1. 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.
2. Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or area cleared of flammable vegetation.
3. Welding or operating an acetylene torch with open flames, except by permit.
4. Using, or causing to be used, any explosive, except by permit.
5. Discharge, use, or allowing the use of fireworks, tracer rounds, steel-core ammunition, explosive targets, or any other incendiary device.
6. Operating a motor vehicle or combustion engine equipment without a spark arrestor anywhere other than on existing paved, gravel or dirt roads.
7. Operating a vehicle or other motorized equipment in wildland areas without an ax, shovel and at least one gallon of water.

Exemptions:

Each of the following persons is exempt from this order:

1. Persons with a valid permit or contract specifically authorizing the otherwise prohibited act or omission.
2. Any federal, state, local officer or member of and organized firefighting force, in the performance of an official duty.

North Las Vegas Fire Department

• It is unlawful for any person to burn any combustible refuse including garbage, vegetable matter, waste materials, tar products, rubbed products, rags, oil and oil-soaked materials, auto bodies and auto salvage, wire and insulation, and similar smoke-producing materials, in any outdoor open fire within the city limits of North Las Vegas.
• Fireworks are prohibited in Clark County, except for the Safe-N-Sane variety that are purchased from a licensed seller. These Safe-N-Sane fireworks are only to be utilized between June 28th through July 4th.

Nye County

• Restrictions prohibit discharging fireworks, pyrotechnics, or incendiary devices. Pahrump Valley Fire & Rescue
• All burning is prohibited May 15 – Nov 1.
• Property owners are required to obtain a burn permit during “Burn Season,” Nov. 1 – May 15.

US Fish and Wildlife Service

• Desert National Wildlife Refuge: no fires are allowed outside of the Desert Pass Campground. Visitors are required to use the provided fire rings at Desert Pass Campground. Rock rings and ground fires are prohibited.
• Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge: visitors are required to use grills or provided fire rings. It is prohibited to use any fire ring that is not provided by USFWS, including rock rings and ground fires.
• Moapa National Wildlife Refuge & Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge: fire is always prohibited.

USDA Forest Service – Spring Mountains National Recreation Area

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest (including Mount Charleston Fire Protection District)

• Campfires are only allowed within the approved fire pits or grills provided in developed recreation sites. A developed recreation site has Forest Service signage that designates it as an agency-owned campground or day use area and is identified on a Forest Service map as a site developed for that purpose.
• Operating a chainsaw or other equipment powered by an internal combustion engine between 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. is prohibited during fire restrictions.
• Outdoor smoking is only authorized while stopped in an area at least three feet in diameter that is clear of all flammable materials.
• Year-round fire restrictions are also still in effect for the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area. For details on what is prohibited, visit https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/humboldt-toiyabe/fire/fire-restrictions or www.nevadafireinfo.org.

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