Black Hills National Forest Pile Burning
- Hell Canyon fire (southern hills) will be burning up to 100 large machine piles, 4 miles south of Custer, 5 machine piles at the Forest Service admin. site in Custer and 1 machine pile at the Tepee Work Center. Smoke & flames may be visible from Hwy 385, Custer and Hwy 16 for several days.
- Mystic fire (central hills) will be burning piles in the Balsar Gulch area and 5 miles northwest of Hill City, SD in the vicinity of Redfern and Mystic Road. Smoke will be visible along Sheridan Lake Road and Hill City.
- Mystic is also burning piles 5 miles NW of Hill City in the vicinity of Redfern and Mystic Road. Smoke may be seen in Hill City.
- Northern Hills District fire crew will be burning approximately 1000 piles along Rapid Creek Forest Service Road 231 and Bohls Canyon Forest Service Road 117, near the Northern Hills Work Center and Bear Ridge Forest Service Road 131.1.
Northern Hills fire crew is also planning to burn hand piles off Mt. Roosevelt Road (Forest Service Road 133), near Deadwood, the week of February 8th and piles located on Keough Rd. and Dalton Lake Rd.
- Starting tomorrow, 2/9/21, Bearlodge fire (Sundance, WY) is planning to burn piles on Fish Mountain, 10 miles SE of Sundance, WY (south on 585 to Canyon Springs Rd. to FS Road 872.3).
- Depending on conditions, Bearlodge Ranger District fire crew may also burn piles south of highway 24 off of Forest Service Road 838 (roughly 15 air miles northwest of Sundance, WY) sometime this week.
Nebraska National Forest Pile Burning
- The Pine Ridge Ranger District will be burning slash piles Monday and Tuesday (February 8th and 9th), south of Chadron State Park and south of Chadron Creek Wildlife Management Area. Smoke may be visible along highway 385.
- Should good burning conditions remain, the District will move northeast of the Cliffs area (Pasture 37E) and continue burning slash piles Wednesday through Friday (February 10-12).
- The District will continue to monitor these piles over the next several weeks. If you have any questions, please call our office at 308-432-0300.