Incident Media Maps

A map shows the planned treatment area of the Wild Bill (Horseshoe) prescribed fire project.

Planned prescribed fire projects on the Coconino National Forest for the spring of 2024.

The 3Echo (3E) project is a prescribed fire planned in the Flagstaff Urban Interface (FUI). The FUI is a Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI): A zone of transition between unoccupied wilderness, and human-developed land. Should an unplanned catastrophic wildfire start in the wildland area of the WUI, critical infrastructure (such as homes, businesses and outbuildings) located in the WUI is at risk of severe damage or complete loss. By conducting land treatments such as prescribed fire, fire managers can remove unburned fuels (such as dry pine needles, dead and down trees and decomposing plant matter) to reduce the threat of wildfire damage to important infrastructure. 

The 3E project will protect homes in Kachina Village and Mountainaire, as well as values at risk such as the Lake Mary watershed and nearby animal habitat.

 

Fire managers aim to treat a portion of land located norther of the San Francisco Peaks as part of the spring 2024 Horseshoe prescribed fire project.